See also:BART See also:SIR See also:CHARLES See also:MARK See also:PALMER
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(1822-1907), See also:English shipbuilder, was See also:born at See also:South See also:Shields on the 3rd of See also:November 1822
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His See also:father, originally the See also:captain of a whaler, removed in 1828 to See also:Newcastle-on-See also:Tyne, where he conducted a See also:ship-owning and ship-broking business
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See also:Charles See also:Palmer at the See also:age of fifteen entered a See also:shipping business in that See also:town, whence, after six months, he went to See also:Marseilles, where his father had procured him a See also:post in a large commercial See also:house, at the same See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time entrusting him with the See also:local agency of his own business
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After two years' experience at Marseilles he entered his father's business at Newcastle, and in 1842 he became a partner
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His business capacity attracted the See also:attention of a leading local colliery owner, and he was appointed manager of the Marley See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill colliery in which he became a partner in 1846
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Subsequently he was made one of the managers of the associated collieries See also:north and south of the Tyne owned by See also:Lord Ravensworth, Lord See also:Wharncliffe, the See also:marquess of See also:Bute, and Lord Strathmore, and in due course he gradually See also:purchased these properties out of the profits of the Marley Hill colliery
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Simultaneously he greatly See also:developed the then recently-established See also:coke See also:trade, obtaining the coke contracts for several of the large English and See also:continental See also:railways
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About 1850 the question of See also:coal-transport to the See also:London See also:market became a serious question for north See also:country colliery proprietors
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Palmer therefore built, largely according to his own plans, the " See also:John Bowes," the first See also:iron See also:- SCREW (O.E. scrue, from O. Fr. escroue, mod. ecrou; ultimate origin uncertain; the word, or a similar one, appears in Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Schraube, Dan. skrue, but Skeat, following Diaz, finds the origin in Lat. scrobs, a ditch, hole, particularl
screw-See also:collier, and several other See also:steam-colliers, in a yard established by him at See also:Jarrow, then a small Tyneside See also:village
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He then purchased iron-mines in See also:York-See also:shire, and erected along the Tyne at Jarrow large See also:shipbuilding yards, blast-furnaces, See also:steel-See also:works, See also:rolling-See also:mills and See also:engine-works, fitted on the most elaborate See also:scale
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The See also:firm produced See also:war-See also:ships as well as See also:merchant vessels, and their See also:system of rolling See also:armour plates, introduced in 1856, was generally adopted by other builders
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In 1865 he turned the business into Palmer's Shipbuilding and Iron See also:Company, Limited
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In 1886 his services in connexion with the See also:settlement of the costly dispute between See also:British ship-owners and the See also:Suez See also:Canal Company (of which he was then a director) were rewarded with a baronetcy
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He died in London on the 4th of See also:June 1907
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