Personal Life
Palairet married Caroline Mabel Laverton—the daughter of William Henry Laverton, a prominent cricket patron in Wiltshire—in 1894. The pair had two children; Evelyn Mabel Hamilton, born in 1895, and Henry Edward Hamilton, the following year. In addition to cricket, he also maintained an interest in a range of other sports; in a 1901 profile of him in Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Palairet "admits that foxhunting holds the first place in his heart." He was also a keen golfer; he was the first chairman of the Devon County Golf Union upon its formation in 1911. He captained Devon either side of the First World War, from 1914 through until 1926, and was also president of the union from 1923 until 1932. He developed the idea of an inter-club team championship within Devon, and donated the trophy, which remains named the Palairet Trophy. During the First World War, he had command of a Remount Depot at Powderham, the seat of the Earl of Devon, for whom he served as a land agent. He died on 27 March 1933, aged 62. He died in Exmouth.
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