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Authorised form of namePalgrave; Sir; Francis (1788 - 1861)
Other forms of surnameCohen
Dates1788 - 1861
NationalityBritish
Place of birthLondon, England
Date of birthJuly 1788
Place of deathHis house at Hampstead Green, Hampstead, London
Date of death06 July 1861
ActivityHonours:
Kt 1832
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election15/11/1821
RelationshipsChanged his name from Cohen to Palgrave (1823); married Elizabeth, daughter of Dawson Turner (FRS 1802); father of Sir Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave (FRS 1882) and of Francis Turner Palgrave, author of "Golden Treasury"
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1862-1863 vol 12 pp xiii-xx
Notes:
Text deliberately obscured from election certificate
CodeNA7103
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
DM/1/17Letter from Francis Palgrave, Duke Street, Westminster, to James Hudson, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society8 March 1831
EC/1821/30Palgrave, Sir Francis: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/003410Palgrave, Sir Francis2002
IM/003409Palgrave, Sir Francis1823
AP/19/19Unpublished letter, 'An account of the eruption of Mount Etna in the year 1536 from original contemporary documents' from Francis Palgrave to J G [John George] Children14 January 1835
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