Modern English biography

_Maclaren’s History of the currency_ (1858) 173–8. PALMER, NATHANIEL (son of Nathaniel Palmer government contractor for the navy and stamp distributor at Great Yarmouth). _b._ Great Yarmouth Oct. 1792; solicitor at Great Yarmouth; barrister I.T. 27 Nov. 1827, went Norfolk circuit; a county comr. of bankruptcy; judge of Guildhall court of record at Norwich; recorder of Great Yarmouth June 1836 to death. _d._ Coltishall, near Norwich 30 March 1872. _Law journal vii_ 264 (1872). PALMER, RICHARD (son of Robert Palmer, landlord of the White Horse inn, Preston). _b._ Lancaster 23 Feb. 1773; articled to Nicholas Grimshaw of Preston, attorney 6 June 1788; admitted attorney March 1794; partner with N. Grimshaw Dec. 1799; one of coroners for Lancashire 12 Nov. 1799 to death; town clerk of Preston 1801 to death, officiated at the three guilds of 1802, 1822, and 1842, when a medal was struck in his honour; N. Grimshaw died in 1835, when all his public offices were conferred on Palmer; clerk to local board of health 7 Oct. 1850, resigned 12 Feb. 1852; attended the Lancaster assizes for the 127th time 7 Aug. 1852. _d._ Preston 13 Dec. 1852. _G.M. Feb. 1853 pp._ 212–3. PALMER, ROBERT (1 son of Richard Palmer of Hurst and Sonning, Berks.) _b._ 31 Jany. 1793; educ. Eton and Trin. coll. Camb.; sheriff of Berks. 1818; M.P. Berks. 1825–59; chairman of Berks. quarter sessions. _d._ Holme park, near Reading 24 Nov. 1872. _bur._ Sonning churchyard 29 Nov. _I.L.N. lxi_ 527 (1872). PALMER, SAMUEL (son of Samuel Palmer, bookseller, _d._ Dec. 1848). _b._ Surrey sq. St. Mary’s, Newington 27 Jany. 1805; educ. Merchant Taylors’ school 1817 etc.; exhibited 57 landscapes at R.A., 20 at B.I., and 8 at Suffolk st. 1819–80; his first picture exhibited at the British institution sold 1819; resided at Shoreham, near Sevenoaks, Kent 1826–32; lived at Rome and Naples 1837–9; associate of Society of painters in water-colours Feb. 1843, member June 1854; member of the Etching society 1853; nearly the last of the ideal school of landscape painters; resided at Mead Vale, Redhill 1862 to death; his eight pictures, illustrating Milton’s poems L’Allegro and Il Pensoroso were exhibited at the Water-colour society 1868–82; seven of his plates were published by the Etching club 1872–80; author of English version of the Eclogues of Virgil, with illustrations 1883; he illustrated A. A. Procter’s Legends and lyrics 1866, and The shorter poems of John Milton 1889; _m._ 1837 Hannah, eld. dau. of John Linnell, the painter, she exhibited 8 Italian views at the R.A. and B.I. 1840–2, and _d._ Nov. 1892 in 76 year; he _d._ Furze hill house, Mead Vale, Redhill 24 May 1881. _bur._ Reigate old church 28 May; a collection of his works was exhibited by Fine Art Society 1881, and 17 of his drawings were lent to the winter exhibition of the R.A. 1893. _A. H. Palmer’s Life and letters of S. Palmer_ (1892) _portrait_; _S. Palmer, a memoir by A. H. Palmer_ (1882) _portrait_; _P. G. Hamerton’s Etching and etchers_ (1876) 325–38; _The Portfolio_ (1872) 161–9; _I.L.N. lxviii_ 616 (1881) _portrait_; _F. G. Stephens’ Notes on a collection of drawings by S. Palmer, with an account of the Milton series_ (1881). PALMER, SHIRLEY (son of Edward Palmer, solicitor). _b._ Coleshill, Warws. 27 Aug. 1786; educ. Coleshill gr. sch. and Harrow; M.R.C.S. 1807; M.D. Glasgow 1815; practised at Tamworth, Staffs. 1807 to death, also at Birmingham from 1831; edited with Wm. Shearman and James Johnson the New medical and physical journal 1815–9; and with D. Uwins and S. F. Gray the London medical repository 1819–21; author of The Swiss exile, Lichfield 1804; Popular illustrations of medicine 1829; Popular lectures on the vertebrated animals of the British islands 1832; A pentaglot dictionary of the terms employed in anatomy, physiology, pathology, practical medicine, &c. 1845. _d._ Tamworth 11 Nov. 1852. _Simms’s Bibliotheca Staffordiensis_ (1894) 345. PALMER, SILAS (son of Mr. Palmer of 47 regt.) _b._ Stirling castle 1815; educ. in medicine at Paris, Vienna, and Rome; M.D. Edinb. 1836; L.R.C.S. 1836; in practice at Speenhamland, Newbury, Berks. 1846 to death; a leading authority on archæological matters in Berks.; local sec. of congress of British Archæological assoc. at Newbury in 1859; a founder of the Newbury district field club 1870; contributed to Provincial medical journal, to the Lancet, and to British Archæol. journal. _d._ London road, Newbury 24 March 1875. _A rod taken out of pickle, correspondence between J. Taylor and S. Palmer during the late annual meeting at Newbury, Berks. 1860_; _Journal British Archæol. assoc. xxxii_ 282–3 (1876). PALMER, THOMAS. Entered Bengal army 1803; lieut. 19 Bengal N.I. 28 Oct. 1804, capt. 11 Jany. 1818; major 39 N.I. 30 Sept. 1827, and lieut. col. 15 Oct. 1832 to 18 June 1834; lieut. col. of 21 N.I. 18 June 1834 to 1840, and of 27 N.I. 1840 to 16 April 1844; col. of 72 N.I. 16 April 1844 to death; commanded at Delhi 13 June 1846 to 14 July 1851; commanded Cawnpore division 9 April 1852 to death. _d._ Mussoorie 15 April 1854. PALMER, WILLIAM (2 son of William Palmer of Rugeley, Staffs., timber merchant). _b._ Rugeley, _baptised_ there 21 Oct. 1824; educ. Rugeley gr. school; apprenticed to Evans and Sons, druggists, Liverpool, dismissed for opening letters; apprenticed to Dr. Tylecote at Heywood, near Rugeley 1842; studied at Stafford infirmary and St. Bartholomew’s hospital 1846, house surgeon 8 Sept. 1846, resigned Oct. 1846; M.R.C.S. 10 Aug. 1846; practised at Rugeley from 1846 for several years; owner and breeder of racehorses 1850; won the Liverpool autumn handicap with The Chicken Nov. 1855, this horse afterwards named Vengeance won the Cesarewitch; _m._ 7 Oct. 1847 Ann, dau. of colonel William Brookes, insured his wife’s life for £13,000, she died of bilious cholera 25 Sept. 1854, when he was paid the amount; insured his brother Walter Palmer’s life for £13,000, he died suddenly 16 Aug. 1855, when the insurance office refused to pay, on account of the suspicious circumstances; arrested 15 Dec. 1855 on the charge of poisoning his friend, John Parsons Cooke, a betting man from Lutterworth, who _d._ 21 Nov. 1855 at the Talbot arms, Rugeley; verdicts of wilful murder were found against Palmer at the inquests on the exhumed bodies of his wife and brother; tried at the Old Bailey before lord chief justice Campbell 14–27 May 1856, found guilty of murder 27 May; _hanged_ outside Stafford gaol 14 June 1856, in the presence of 20,000 people; he had poisoned many persons 1850–6. _Illustrated life of William Palmer_ (1856) _portraits_; _Central criminal court proceedings xliv_ 5–225 (1856); _A. S. Taylor On poisoning by strychnine_ (1856); _Browne and Stewart’s Reports of trials_ (1883) 84–232; _J. F. Stephen’s General view of the criminal law of England_ (1890) 231–72; _J. F. Stephen’s History of the criminal law iii_ 389–425 (1883); _Simms’s Bibliotheca Staffordiensis_ (1894) 345–6; _Reynolds’s Miscellany xvi_ 377–9, 391–2 (1856) _portrait_; _Sporting Review xxxvi_ 110–14 (1856); _Law Mag. and Law Review i_ 332–56 (1856); _I.L.N. xxviii_ 560–4, 554–5, 566–7, 598–9, 694 (1856); _A.R._ (1856) 13, 60–62, 387–529; _Griffith’s Newgate ii_ 432–9 (1884). PALMER, WILLIAM (2 son of George Palmer of Nazeing park, Essex). _b._ 9 Nov. 1802; educ. St. Mary hall, Oxf., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; barrister I.T. 14 May 1830; had a large practice as a conveyancer; professor of civil law at Gresham college, city of London 1836 to death; author of An inquiry into the navigation laws 1833; Discourse on the Gresham foundation, two introductory lectures 1837; The law of wreck considered with a view to its amendment 1843; Principles of the legal provision for the relief of the poor 1844. _d._ 56 Eaton place, London 24 April 1858. _Law Times xxxi_ 87, 101 (1858). PALMER, WILLIAM (eld. son of Wm. Jocelyn Palmer 1778–1853, R. of Mixbury, Oxfordshire). _b._ Mixbury 12 July 1811; educ. Rugby and Magd. coll. Oxf., demy 1826–32, fellow 1832–55, tutor 1838–43; B.A. 1831, M.A. 1833; tutor and censor and member of the senate in univ. of Durham 1833–6; examiner in classical schools at Oxford 1837–9; resided in Russia examining oriental christianity 1840–1; sought admission to the Greek church, but was refused 1841–52; received into church of Rome in chapel of Roman college at Rome 27 Feb. 1855; resided at Rome 1855 to death; always known as Palmer of Magdalen; author of Aids to reflection on the foundation of a Protestant bishopric at Jerusalem, Oxford 1841; Short poems and hymns 1843; Harmony of Anglican doctrine with the doctrine of the Eastern church, Aberdeen 1846, translated into Greek 1851; An appeal to the Scottish bishops and clergy, and generally to the church of their communion. By N. N., deacon of the church of England, Edinburgh 1849; Dissertations on subjects relating to the orthodox or eastern-catholic communion 1853; Egyptian chronicles with a harmony of sacred and Egyptian chronology, 2 vols. 1861; Commentatio in Librum Danielis, Rome 1874; The Patriarch Nicon and the Tsar, 6 vols. 1871–6. _d._ Piazza di Santa Maria in Campitelli, Rome 5 April 1879. _bur._ cemet. of S. Lorenzo in Campo Verano 8 April. _J. R. Bloxam’s Register of Magdalen college vii_ 297–318 (1881); _Life of Leon Papin Dupont_ (1882) 55–64; _Contemporary Review May 1883 pp._ 636–59; _H. P. Liddon’s Life of E. B. Pusey ii_ 287 (1893). PALMER, WILLIAM (only son of Wm. Palmer of St. Mary’s, Dublin, _d._ 1865). _b._ 14 Feb. 1803; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1824; M.A. Oxf. 1829; incorporated at Magd. hall, Oxf. Oct. 1828, removed to Worcester coll. 1831; always known as Palmer of Worcester; founded with Hurrell Froude and Hugh James Rose the Association of friends of the church 1833; he wrote No. 15 of the Tracts for the Times 13 Dec. 1833, On the apostolical succession in the English church, but it was revised and completed by J. H. Newman; V. of Monkton-Wyld, Devon and Dorset 1846–69; V. of Whitchurch-Canonicorum, Dorset, with Chideock, Marshwood and Stanton St. Gabriel, in Dorset and Wilts. 1846 to death; preb. of Salisbury 1849–58; claimed and assumed the title of baronet on his father’s death 1865; author of Origines liturgicæ, or antiquities of the English ritual, 2 vols. Oxford 1832, 4 ed. 1845; A treatise on the church of Christ, 2 vols. 1838, 3 ed. 1842; A letter to N. Wiseman, D.D. (calling himself bishop of Melipotamus) containing remarks on his letter to Mr. Newman, Oxford 1841; A narrative of events connected with the publication of Tracts for the times 1843, 4 ed. 1883; The doctrine of development and conscience considered in relation to the evidences of Christianity and of the Catholic system 1846; Results of the expostulations of W. E. Gladstone in their relation to the unity of Roman Catholicism. By Umbra Oxoniensis