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 magistrate. Palmer occupied a seat in the reformed corporation as a representative of the south ward. In 1854 he was elected mayor, and was re-elected in the following year. He also served as deputy-lieutenant for the county of Suffolk. He was the chief promoter of the Victoria Building Company; the erection of the Wellington pier was in great measure due to his energy; and he took a prominent part in the establishment of the assembly and reading rooms. In 1830 he was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. He died at his residence, Villa Graham, Great Yarmouth, on 24 Sept. 1882.

He married Amelia Graham, daughter of John Mortlock Lacon, esq., but had no issue by her.

Palmer edited ‘The History of Great Yarmouth, by Henry Manship [q. v.],’ Great Yarmouth, 1854, and wrote ‘The History of Great Yarmouth, designed as a Continuation of Manship's History of that Town,’ Great Yarmouth, 1856, 4to.

His other works are: 1. ‘The History and Illustrations of a House in the Elizabethan Style of Architecture, the property of John Danby Palmer, Esq., and situated in the borough-town of Great Yarmouth,’ privately printed, London, 1838, fol., with numerous drawings and engravings by H. Shaw, F.S.A. A copy in the British Museum is entitled ‘Illustrations of Domestic Architecture in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth,’ and prefixed to it is a portrait of the author (private plate), engraved by W. Holl. 2. ‘A Booke of the Foundacion and Antiquitye of the Towne of Greate Yermouthe: from the original manuscript written in the time of Queen Elizabeth: with notes and an appendix. Edited by C. J. Palmer,’ Great Yarmouth, 1847, 4to. Dedicated to Dawson Turner. The reputed author of the manuscript is Henry Manship the elder. 3. ‘Remarks on the Monastery of the Dominican Friars at Great Yarmouth,’ Yarmouth, 1852, 8vo, reprinted from vol. iii. of the ‘Norfolk Archæology.’ 4. ‘The Perlustration of Great Yarmouth, with Gorleston and Southtown,’ 3 vols. Great Yarmouth, 1872–4–5, 4to. 5. ‘Memorials of the Family of Hurry, of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, and of New York, United States,’ Norwich, privately printed, 1873, 4to, with plates.

Palmer also edited, with Stephen Tucker, Rouge Croix pursuivant, ‘Palgrave Family Memorials,’ privately printed, Norwich, 1878, 4to, with illustrations. After his death appeared ‘Leaves from the Journal of the late Chas. J. Palmer, F.S.A. Edited, with notes, by Frederick Danby Palmer,’ Great Yarmouth, 1892, 4to, with portrait prefixed.

[Information from Frederick Danby Palmer, esq.; Yarmouth Mercury, 30 Sept. 1882, p. 5; Times, 28 Sept. 1882, p. 9, col. 5; Gent. Mag. 1856, pt. ii. p. 687; Solicitors' Journal, 7 Oct. 1882, p. 731; Law Times, lxxiii. 388; Guardian, 1882, pt. ii. p. 1341; Notes and Queries, 1 Oct. 1892, p. 280; Martin's Privately Printed Books (1854), p. 473.]  PALMER, CHARLOTTE (fl. 1780–1797), author, was engaged in the profession of teaching. In 1780 she published with Newbery a novel in five volumes, ‘Female Stability; or the History of Miss Belville.’ It is written in epistolary fashion. On the title-page the author is called the late Miss Palmer, yet in 1797 appeared ‘Letters on Several Subjects from a Preceptress to her Pupils who have left School.’ It was addressed chiefly to real characters. Among the subjects are dress, choice of books, and clandestine marriage. The book, which ends with a poem entitled ‘Pelew,’ referring to Prince Lee-Boo, is a curious and instructive picture of the manners of the time (, Bookseller of Last Century, p. 281).

Miss Palmer's other works are: 1. ‘Integrity and Content: an Allegory,’ 1792. 2. ‘It is and it is not: a Novel,’ 2 vols. 1792. 3. ‘A newly invented Copy-book,’ 1797.

[Allibone's Dict. of Engl. Lit. ii. 1492; Biogr. Dict. of Living Authors, 1816.]  PALMER, EDWARD (fl. 1572), antiquary, was the son of a gentleman of Compton Scorfen, Ilmington, Warwickshire, and belonged to the old family of Palmer in that neighbourhood (cf., Warwickshire, ed. 1730, p. 633). He was educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, and appears in the list of its students in 1572 (University Register, Oxf. Hist. Soc., vol. ii. pt. ii. p. 38). He took no degree, but, living on his patrimony, devoted himself to heraldry, history, and antiquities. He became known to learned men of his day, especially to Camden, who calls him (Britannia, ‘Gloucestershire’) a curious and diligent antiquary. He does not appear to have published anything, but Wood (Athenæ Oxon. ed. Bliss, ii. 28; cf. Gent. Mag., 1815, pt. ii. p. 233) states that he made ‘excellent collections of English antiquities, which, after his death, coming into the hands of such persons who understood them not, were therefore … embezzled, and in a manner lost. He had also a curious collection of coins and subterrane antiquities, which in like sort are also embezzled.’ A note by him on the valuation of coins current is in Cotton MS. Otho, E. X., fol. 301, b. ii.

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