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Early life [ edit ]
Palmer was born on 23 July 1799, as the eldest son of George Palmer , MP for South Essex , and Anna Maria Bund, at Nazeing Park .[1]
According to handwritten notes on a photograph of Palmer in the State Library of South Australia (SLSA), Palmer "raised the West Essex Yeomanry Cavalry in 1830",[2] but a memorial plaque in All Saints' Church in Nazeing gives the date as 1828.[3] He gained the rank of captain in the Essex Yeomanry,[1] later being promoted to lieutenant-colonel .[2]
He was appointed as one of the members of the founding South Australian Colonisation Commission on 5 May 1835,[4] [5] a London -based board created under the South Australia Act 1834 to oversee the sale and leasing of land in South Australia to British subjects.[6] [7]
Palmer and fellow Commissioner Jacob Barrow Montefiore were responsible for fulfilling all of the agents ' and other requirements for the "First Fleet of South Australia " in 1836, under the command of Colonel Light.[8] They helped Light to ready the Rapid and Cygnet , the first two ships sent by the Commissioners (the South Australian Company sent the first three ships).[9] As part of the process, the pair trialled a new code for emigrant ships, requiring that a ship's surgeon had to travel on any ship with over 100 passengers. It also specified a minimum deck height. This reform, leading to reduced deaths at sea, was adopted for all British emigrant ships in 1839.[8]
He became a friend of William Light ,[8] Surveyor-General of South Australia and planner of the city of Adelaide , and years later, he was responsible for sending a silver bowl to the Mayor and Corporation of the City of Adelaide , as a gift from four friends of Light: Montefiore, Raikes Currie and Alexander Lang Elder , and himself. The bowl was to be used for toasting the memory of Light, a tradition which continues today.[10] [11] [9]
When a wave of unrest swept Britain in the late 1830s, Lt-Col Palmer, whose primary purpose with the Essex Yeomanry at that time was to protect the Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mills and the Royal Small Arms Factory at Enfield Lock , had to bear the costs of the unit himself from 1838 to 1843.[12] [13] [14] [Note 1]
In 1863 Palmer served as High Sheriff for the county of Essex , and also served as verderer of Epping Forest for many years.[3] There is a sketch of Palmer as Verderer of Epping Forest dated 1871, held in the Print Collection of the New York Public Library .[15]
He married Elizabeth Charlotte Surtees, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne .[3] She died in childbirth aged 42 on 30 July 1848, leaving three sons and a daughter surviving.
Death and legacy [ edit ]
Palmer died on 26 April 1883 at Nazeing. He is referred to as "George Palmer Jnr. Esqre" on the memorial plaque in All Saints' Church.[3]
Palmer Place and Palmer Gardens (now dual-named Pangki-Pangki) in North Adelaide were named after Palmer,[8] as was the town of Palmer in the Mid-Murray region .[16]
New Zealand Founding [ edit ]
According to the note on the SLSA photograph note (see above), Palmer was also involved in the founding of New Zealand in 1840.[2] While his father was on the founding board of the New Zealand Company in 1825,[17] [18] [19] no independent corroboration of George Junior's involvement with New Zealand has been found yet (as of December 2020[update] ).
^ Note: Initially copied from the Essex Yeomanry article, checked against the DNB source for George Palmer Sr: "For many years he supported at his own cost a corps of yeomanry, and acted as colonel of the corps". However this is likely a mistake, as there is no other mention of a connection to the army for G.P. Sr.[1]
References [ edit ]
^ a b c d Whitworth, John (2020). "All Saints, Nazeing Church, Essex" . Essex Churches . Retrieved 10 December 2020 .
^ "Majority of the Colony of South Australia" . South Australian Register . Vol. XXII, no. 3509. 5 January 1858. p. 3 . Retrieved 7 December 2020 – via National Library of Australia .
^ "Foundation of the Province" . SA Memory . State Library of South Australia . 5 February 2015. Retrieved 7 December 2020 .
^ "South Australia Act, or Foundation Act, of 1834 (UK )" . Documenting a Democracy: Australia'a Story . Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House. Retrieved 2 November 2019 .
^ "Transcript of the South Australia Act, 1834" (PDF) . Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House. Retrieved 6 November 2019 .
^ a b c d "The Names of Adelaide, South Australia" . Pocket Oz Guide to Australia . 2019. Retrieved 7 December 2020 .
^ a b Elton, Jude. "Montefiore Hill" . Adelaidia . History SA. Retrieved 10 December 2020 .
^ Llewellyn-Smith, Michael (2012). "The Background to the Founding of Adelaide and South Australia in 1836". Behind the Scenes: The Politics of Planning Adelaide . University of Adelaide . pp. 34–35. ISBN 9781922064400 . JSTOR 10.20851/j.ctt1sq5wvd.8 . Retrieved 7 December 2020 .
^ "The Colonel Light ceremony" . City of Adelaide . 9 September 2020. Retrieved 7 December 2020 .
^ Foakes, Colonel S.P.; McKenzie-Bell, Major M. (3 September 2023). Essex Yeomanry: A Short History . Essex: Temperley Media/Essex Yeomanry Association. pp. 7–8. ISBN 978-0-9572333-0-0 .
^ Mileham, Patrick (1994). The Yeomanry Regiments; 200 Years of Tradition . Edinburgh: Canongate Academic. pp. 84–5. ISBN 1-898410-36-4 .
^ "Essex Yeomanry at Regiments.org" . Archived from the original on 26 December 2005. Retrieved 26 December 2005 .
^ "Lieutenant-Colonel Palmer, Verderer of Epping Forest" (Sketch) . Digital Collections, The New York Public Library . 14 October 1871. Retrieved 10 December 2020 .
^ "46-09 - Palmer Gardens - Naming and history" . Adelaide City Explorer . Retrieved 7 December 2020 .
^ McDonnell, Hilda (2002). "Chapter 3: The New Zealand Company of 1825" . The Rosanna Settlers: with Captain Herd on the coast of New Zealand 1826-7 . Retrieved 7 December 2020 – via Wellington City Libraries. including Thomas Shepherd's Journal and his coastal views, The NZ Company of 1825.
^ Adams, Peter (2013). Fatal Necessity: British Intervention in New Zealand, 1830–1847 . BWB e-Book. Bridget Williams Books. p. 197. ISBN 978-1-927277-19-5 . Retrieved 7 December 2020 . ...first published in 1977.
^ Wakefield, Edward Jerningham (1845). Adventure in New Zealand, from 1839 to 1844: With Some Account of the Beginning of the British Colonization of the Islands . John Murray. p. 4 . Retrieved 7 December 2020 . Digitised 22 July 2009
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