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| Date transcribed | 2011-08-00 | | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | | Comment | Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work. |
| | Surname | Palmer | | | First Name(s) | Edward Henry | | | Birth Year | 1840 | | | Death Year | 1882 | | | Entry | Born Aug. 7, 1840 : son of William Henry Palmer : educated at the Perse Grammar School, Cambridge : learnt Romany as a boy : three years in business in London : learnt Italian, French, Persian, Arabic, and Hindustani at Cambridge : Sizar of St. John's College, 1863 : Scholar : B.A., 1867 : continued his studies in Oriental languages, composing and writing in them : wrote Oriental Mysticism : Fellow of St. John's College, 1867 : in 1869 travelled for the Palestine Exploration Fund in the survey of Sinai, and, again, from Sinai to Jerusalem and Damascus : wrote The Desert of the Exodus, 1871 : a history of Jerusalem etc., etc. : became Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic, 1871 : lectured on Oriental languages at Cambridge : wrote an Arabic grammar, and manual, and a Persian dictionary : also translated the Koran, and Arabic poetry : wrote a life of the Caliph Haroun Alrashid : revised Henry Martyn's New Testament in Persian : wrote for the Encyclopcedia Britannica : called to the bar from the Middle Temple, 1874 : wrote from 1881 for daily and weekly journals in London : sent in June, 1882, on a secret mission to the Bedouins in the desert vid Jaffa : at first successful, but later was treacherously led into an ambush, and, on Aug. n, 1882, was shot with his two companions, Gill and Charrington : their remains were buried in St. Paul's Cathedral in April, 1883. |
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