_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