Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave
1827–1919
Banker. Educated at Charterhouse; entered the banking-house of Gurneys & Co. (later Barclay’s), in which his grandfather Dawson Turner was a partner. Wrote on banking, statistics, and currency. Editor, the Economist, 1877–83. Brother of Francis Turner and William Gifford Palgrave. Knighted, 1909. FRS 1882.
Source
Men and women of the time 1899, The Times 28 January 1919, p. 11.
Bibliography
Men and women of the time: The men of the time in 1852 or sketches of living notables. 2d edition, 1853. 3d edition, 1856. 4th edition, 1857. New edition, 1865. 7th edition, 1868. 8th edition, 1872. 9th edition, 1875. 10th edition, 1879. 11th edition, 1884. 12th edition, 1887. 13th edition, 1891. 14th edition, 1895. Men and women of the time: a dictionary. 15th edition. By Victor G. Plarr. 1899. London: David Bogue [and others]. 1852–99.