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SIR FRANCIS PALGRAVE (1788-1861)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 630 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:FRANCIS See also:PALGRAVE (1788-1861)  , See also:English historian, was the son of See also:Meyer See also:Cohen, a Jewish stockbroker, and was See also:born in See also:London in See also:July 1788 . He was educated privately and was so precocious a boy as to translate a Latin version of the See also:Battle of the Frogs and Mice into See also:French in 1796, which was published by his See also:father in 1797 . In 1803 See also:Palgrave was articled to a See also:firm of solicitors, but was called to the See also:bar at the See also:Middle See also:Temple in 1827 . On his See also:marriage in 1823 with See also:Elizabeth, daughter of See also:Dawson See also:Turner of See also:Great See also:Yarmouth, he had become a See also:Christian, and had changed his name to Palgrave, the See also:maiden name of his wife's See also:mother . His See also:work as a See also:barrister was chiefly concerned with See also:pedigree cases before the See also:House of Lords . He edited for the See also:Record See also:Commission See also:Parliamentary Writs (London, 1827—1834); Rotuli curiae regis (London, 1835); The antient kalendars and inventories of the See also:treasury of his See also:majesty's See also:exchequer (London, 1836); and Documents and records illustrating the See also:history of See also:Scotland (London, 1837), which contains an elaborate introduction . In 1831 he published his History of See also:England, Anglo-Saxon See also:Period, later See also:editions of which were published as History of the Anglo-See also:Saxons; in 1832, his Rise and Progress of the English See also:Commonwealth, pronounced by See also:Freeman a " memorable See also:book "; and in 1834 his See also:Essay upon the See also:original authority of the See also:king's See also:council . In 1832 he was knighted, and after serving as one of the municipal corporations commissioners, became See also:deputy-keeper of the public records in 1838, holding this See also:office until his See also:death at See also:Hampstead on the 6th of July 1861 . Palgrave's most important work is his History of See also:Normandy and England, which appeared in four volumes (London 1851-1864), and deals with the history of the two countries down to 11os . He also wrote Truths and See also:Fictions of the Middle Ages (London, 1837, and again 1844); The See also:Lord and the See also:Vassal (London, 1844); and Handbook for Travellers in See also:Northern See also:Italy (London, 1842, and subsequent editions) . Palgrave's four sons were: See also:Francis Turner Palgrave (q.v.), sometime See also:professor of See also:poetry at See also:Oxford; See also:William See also:Gifford See also:Pal-See also:grave; See also:Sir See also:Robert Harry See also:Inglis Palgrave (b . 1827), an authority upon banking and See also:economics generally; and Sir Reginald Francis See also:Douce Palgrave .

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