Henry Spencer Palmer
1838–93
Soldier and surveyor. Trained at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, 1856; at the School of Military Engineering at Chatham, 1857–8. Undertook many voyages and surveys in Canada, England, and the Sinai peninsula. Leader of the British Expedition to observe the transit of Venus in New Zealand, 1874.
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ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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