PALGRAVE, William Gifford (2 son of sir Francis Palgrave 1788–1861). b. 22 Parliament st. Westminster 24 Jany. 1826; educ. Charterhouse 1838–43, gold medallist and captain of the school; scholar of Trin. coll. Oxf. 1843–7; 2 lieut. 8 Bombay N.I. 1847; entered a Jesuit establishment in Madras and was ordained a priest; employed in the missionary work of the order in Southern India until June 1853; a missionary in Syria 1853, made many converts, barely escaped from the massacre at Damascus June 1861; a perfect Arabic scholar; delivered lectures in Ireland on the Syrian massacres 1861, published under title of Four lectures on the massacres of the Christians in Syria 1861; travelled across Central Arabia disguised as a Syrian christian doctor and merchant 1862–3; sent on a special mission to Abyssinia to obtain from king Theodore the release of consul Cameron, July 1865; British consul at Soukem-Kaleh 23 July 1866, and at Trebizond 20 May 1867; consul at St. Thomas in the West Indies 30 Jany. 1873, and at Manila 3 April 1876; consul-general in Bulgaria 23 Sept. 1878, and in Siam 26 Nov. 1879; minister-resident in Uruguay 16 Jany. 1884 to death; F.R.G.S. 1878; author of Narrative of a year’s journey through Central and Eastern Arabia, 2 vols. 1865, with portrait; Hermann Agha, 2 vols. 1872, 3 ed. 1878; Essays on eastern questions 1872; Dutch Guiana 1876; Ulysses, or scenes and studies in many lands 1887; A vision of life, semblance and reality 1891; m. 1868 Katherine, dau. of G. E. Simpson of Norwich, she was granted civil list pension of £50, 23 Jany. 1889; he d. Monte Video 30 Sept. 1888. bur. St. Thomas’s cemet. Fulham. T. Cooper’s Men of mark, vol. iv (1880) portrait 4.
PALIN, William (youngest son of Richard Palin). b. Mortlake, Surrey 10 Nov. 1803; matric. from St. Alban hall, Oxf. 17 Dec. 1829; migrated to Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1833, M.A. 1851, M.A. Oxf. 1861; C. of Stifford, Essex, Trinity Sunday 1833; R. of Stifford 6 June 1834 to death, restored the parish church 1861–3; edited the Churchman’s Magazine 1853–7; author of Village lectures on the litany 1837; Bellingham, or narrative of a christian in search of the church 1839; The history of the church of England 1688–1717, 1851; The Christian month, original hymns, set to music by Ann Sheppard Mounsey 1842; Stifford and its neighbourhood, past and present 1871, and More about Stifford and its neighbourhood 1872. d. Stifford rectory-house 16 Oct. 1882. W. Palin’s Stifford (1871) 72, 179–80.
PALIN, William Henry (son of an officer in H.E.I.C. service). b. India 1824; ensign 17 Bombay N.I. 12 Dec. 1840, captain 21 May 1855, retired 29 May 1857; chief constable of Manchester 1857, resigned Feb. 1881. d. 24 Belvidere road, Prince’s park, Liverpool 16 June 1882. bur. Southern cemetery, Withington.
PALLISER, Fanny Bury (dau. of Joseph Marryat, M.P. for Sandwich 1832–4). b. 23 Sept. 1805; (m. 8 Aug. 1832 captain Richard Bury Palliser, 3 son of John Palliser of Derrybuskan, co. Tipperary, he d. Cowley Grove, Middlesex 29 Oct. 1852, aged 55); contributed to the Art Journal and the Academy; helped to organise the international lace academy held at South Kensington 1874; author of The modern poetical speaker 1845; History of lace 1856, 3 ed. 1875; Brittany and its byways 1869; Historic devices, badges and war cries 1870; A descriptive catalogue of the lace and embroidery in the South Kensington museum 1871, 3 ed. 1881; Mottoes for monuments 1872; The china collector’s pocket companion 1874, 2 ed. 1875; A brief history of Germany to the battle of Könizgratz; translated from the French J. Labarte’s Handbook of the arts of the middle ages 1855; A. Jacquemarts History of the ceramic art 1873, and A history of furniture 1878. d. 33 Russell road, Kensington 16 Jany. 1878. F. Marryat’s Life of captain Marryat i, 256–60 (1872); Academy i 73 (1878).
PALIOLOGUS, William Thomas (son of Nicholas Paliologus of Calcutta, notary public d. 1840). b. Calcutta 20 Oct. 1827; educ. by Frederick M. Walter, P.C. of St. Petrox, Dartmouth, England 1840–6; matric. at univ. of London 1846; studied medicine in London; M.R.C.S. 1851; F.R.G.S.; assistant surgeon in the army 1 Sept. 1854, served in the Crimea and India 1854–9; surgeon 20 Oct. 1869, placed on h.p. 13 April 1872; was a representative of the Palæologus family, emperors of the East. d. Isleworth, near Twickenham, Middlesex 15 July 1873. Illustrated Times 17 Jany. 1863 p. 45 portrait; N. and Q. 1 S. v 173 et seq. (1852); Archæologia xviii 84–104 (1817).
PALLISER, Henry. b. 1793; 2 lieut. R.A. 4 June 1810, colonel 13 Dec. 1854 to 22 Feb. 1863; M.G. 22 Feb. 1863. d. Victoria park, Dover 17 Dec. 1864.
PALLISER, John (eld. son of Wray Palliser of Comragh, co. Waterford, d. 1862). b. 29 Jany. 1817; sheriff of Waterford 1844; captain Waterford artillery militia; went on a hunting expedition among the Indians of the western states of America 1847; appointed by the government leader of the expedition for exploring the west of British North America 31 March 1857; explored the Rocky Mountains 1858, for which he was granted the Victoria gold medal of the royal geographical society, May 1859; returned to England 1861; C.M.G. 30 May 1877; author of Solitary rambles and adventures of a hunter in the prairies 1853, eighth thousand 1856. d. Comragh, co. Waterford 18 Aug. 1887.
PALLISER, Sir William (brother of the preceding). b. Dublin 18 June 1830; educ. Rugby, Trin. coll. Dublin, Trin. hall, Camb., and Sandhurst; 2 lieut. rifle brigade 22 April 1855, lieut. 31 Aug. 1855; lieut. 18 hussars 1858, captain 5 Aug. 1859; brigade major of cavalry Dublin 6 July 1860, placed on h.p. 4 Oct. 1860; major in the army 4 Oct. 1864, sold out Dec. 1871; patented improvements in the construction of ordnance and in the projectiles to be used therewith 11 Nov. 1862; took out a patent for screw-bolts 6 Dec. 1862, and another for chill-casting projectiles 27 May 1863, which were introduced into the service 1866; took out 14 patents relating to guns, bolts, and projectiles 1867–81; C.B. 7 Dec. 1868; knighted at Osborne 16 Jany. 1873; granted cross of a commander of the crown of Italy 1875; contested Dungarvon 15 July 1865, and Devonport 18 Nov. 1868; M.P. Taunton April 1880 to death; author of Notes of recent experiments at Shoeburyness with chilled shot and shells 1866, which he withdrew from circulation; The use of earthen fortresses for the defence of London and as a preventive against invasion 1871; m. 1868 Anna, dau. of George Perham, she was granted civil list pension of £150, 20 June 1883. d. 21 Earl’s court sq. London 4 Feb. 1882. bur. Brompton cemet. 9 Feb. Professional papers of the corps of R.E. xiii 128, xiv 163, xvi 125; Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lix 418–21 (1882); I.L.N. lxii 177, 178 (1873) portrait.
PALMER, Arthur (only son of John Jordan Palmer of Bristol). b. 1783; barrister G.I. 16 May 1821; judge of county courts, circuit 55, comprising Bristol, Thornbury, and Chipping-Sodbury 15 March 1847, resigned Jany. 1854. d. the Hot Wells, Clifton 19 Nov. 1856. J. Latimer’s Annals of Bristol (1887) 303.
PALMER, Charles (eld. son of John Palmer, projector of mail-coaches 1742–1818). b. Weston, near Bath 6 May 1777; educ. Eton; matric. from Oriel coll. Oxf. 16 Oct. 1793; cornet 10 dragoons 17 May 1796, lieut. col. 3 May 1810 to 12 Nov. 1814; lieut. col. 23 light dragoons 12 Nov. 1814, placed on h.p. 25 Dec. 1814; A.D.C. to the prince regent, afterwards the king, 8 Feb. 1811 to 27 May 1825; served during the whole of the Peninsular war; M.G. 27 May 1825; M.P. Bath 1808–26 and 1830–7; proprietor of the Bath theatre from 1818; a large vine-grower in the Gironde; author of Speech on the state of the nation, on the third reading of the reform bill 1832. d. 17 April 1851. G.M. July 1851 p. 92; Royal military calendar iv 243 (1820).