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 1875. d. London Oct. 1885. J. H. Newman’s Essays, 2 ed. i 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. 1865. bur. north transept of Westminster abbey 27 Oct., will proved 22 Dec. 1865 under £120,000. Bulwer’s Life of viscount Palmerston to 1847, 3 vols. (1870) portrait; Ashley’s Life of viscount Palmerston, 2 vols. (1879) portrait; W. H. Bidwell’s Imperial Courts of France, England, etc., New York (1863) pp. 137–44; The drawing room portrait gallery of eminent personages, 1st series (1859) portrait; Justin McCarthy’s A history of our own times ii 121–63 and 259–94 (1879); Rice’s History of the British turf i 319–22 (1879); Opinions and policy of viscount Palmerston, with a memoir by George Henry Francis (1852); The two great statesmen, a Plutarchian parallel between Earl Russell and Viscount Palmerston (1862); Materials for the true history of Lord Palmerston (1866); Memoir by Edward Walford (1865); Lord Palmerston, a biography by John McGildrist (1865); Life and times of Lord Palmerston by J. Ewing Ritchie (1867); Saunders’s Portraits of reformers (1840) 163 portrait; Orators of the age by G. H. Francis (1847) 124–41; Illust. news of the world i (1858) portrait; D. D. Maddyn’s Chiefs of parties (1859) 154–84; H. Martineau’s Biographical sketches 4 ed. (1876) 143–53; G. H. Jenning’s Anecdotal history of British parliament (1880) 268–78; Baily’s mag. ii 229–35 (1861) portrait; The betrayal of England by Wm. Coningham; The British cabinet in 1853 pp. 70–113; I.L.N. i 309 (1842) portrait, xvi 457 (1850) portrait; Representative statesmen by A. C. Ewald ii 294–355 (1879); St. Stephens. By Mask (1839) 164–72; Malmesbury’s Memoirs, 2 vols. (1884) passim; Sporting Review liv 317–20 (1865); Sporting Times 9 May 1885 p. 2; W. Day’s Reminiscenses, 2 ed. (1886) 210–7; Illust. Times 12 Nov. 1864 pp. 312–3, double page portrait; P. M. Thornton’s Foreign Secretaries ii 307–36 (1881).
Note.—Lord Palmerston was dismissed from the office of foreign sec. on 17 Dec. 1851 for recognising Louis Napoleon as president of the French republic, without first communicating with the queen on the subject. Ashley’s Life ii 193–228.