Palgrave - People

People

  • John Palsgrave (d. 1554), English scholar
  • Sir Francis Palgrave (born Cohen) (1768–1861), UK historian, and his sons:
    • Francis Turner Palgrave (1824–1897), British critic and poet
    • William Gifford Palgrave (1826–1888), scholar of Arabic
    • Sir Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave (1827–1919), banker, editor of The Economist, & author of Palgrave's Dictionary of Political Economy, predecessor to The New Palgrave dictionary cited herein
    • Sir Reginald Francis Douce Palgrave (1829–1904), Clerk of the British House of Commons

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