Modern English biography

143–85, _ii_ 454 (1846); _H. P. Liddon’s Life of E. B. Pusey i_ 263, _ii_ 146, 524, _iii_ 137, 485 (1893–95). PALMER, WILLIAM ISAAC. _b._ Manor house, Elberton, Gloucestershire 31 May 1824; educ. at a quaker school at Sidcot, Somerset; signed the temperance pledge 1836; an apprentice at Reading, then in Liverpool; one of the founders of the firm of Huntley and Palmer, Reading Biscuit factory, the most extensive manufactory in the United Kingdom, employing continuously 4,000 hands; gave £5,000 towards Reading municipal buildings; connected with and contributed liberally to all the Reading public institutions and libraries; presented with his portrait 19 March 1885; a great supporter of the Blue Ribbon movement and the first to wear the ribbon 1882; for many years he conducted a weekly gathering of the work people of Reading for a pleasant Saturday evening. _d._ Hillside, Reading 4 Jany. 1893. _bur._ Friends’ ground 9 Jany. _Reading Mercury 7 Jany. 1893 p._ 5, _14 Jany. p._ 2; _Daily Graphic 7 Jany. 1893 p._ 14 _portrait_. PALMERSTON, HENRY JOHN TEMPLE, 3 Viscount (1 son of Henry Temple, 2 viscount Palmerston 1739–1802). _b._ Park st. Westminster 20 Oct. 1784, _bapt._ St. Margaret, Westminster 23 Nov.; educ. Eton, Edinb. univ. and St. John’s coll. Camb. M.A. 1806; LL.D. 1864; D.C.L. Oxford 1862; succeeded 17 April 1802; contested Cambridge univ. 7 Feb. 1806, Horsham 4 Nov. 1806, and Cambridge again 8 May 1807, when beaten by 2 votes; M.P. Newport, Isle of Wight 1807–11, the patron sir Leonard Holmes required him never to visit the town, not even for the election; M.P. Cambridge univ. 1811–31; M.P. Bletchingley 1831–2; M.P. South Hants 1832–4; M.P. Tiverton 1835–65; a lord of the admiralty 3 April 1807 to Oct. 1809; made his first speech 3 Feb. 1808; declined chancellorship of the exchequer Oct. 1809; sec. at war 28 Oct. 1809 to 26 May 1828; P.C. 1 Nov. 1809; shot at and slightly wounded at the war office 8 April 1818, by lieut. David Davies, who _d._ of apoplexy at Bethlehem hospital 30 Dec. 1861 aged 67; sec. for foreign affairs 22 Nov. 1830 to 15 Nov. 1834, 18 April 1835 to 31 Aug. 1841, and 3 July 1846 to 22 Dec. 1851; G.C.B. 6 June 1832; home sec. 28 Dec. 1852 to 30 Jany. 1855; first lord of the treasury and prime minister 20 Feb. 1855 to 20 Feb. 1858, and 30 June 1859 to 18 Oct. 1865; K.G. 12 July 1856, the first peer of Ireland upon whom it was ever conferred; lord warden of the Cinque ports 27 March 1861; lord rector of univ. of Glasgow 1862; master of the Trinity house 1862–6; author of Selections from private journals of tours in France (1871). _d._ Brocket hall, Herts. 18 Oct.