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PALGRAVlZ, Sir FiiANCis, an antiquary, was
born in London, July, 1788, being the son of a
Jewish gentleman, Mr. Meyer Cohen, of the Stock
liange. After being" carefully educated at
home under Dr. Moutucci, he was articled to a
firm of solicitors in Basinghall Street, of which he
afterwards became managing clerk, retaining that
position till 1822, when he was employed under
the Record Commission, for from an early period
he had devoted himself with great ardour to an-
tiquarian pursuits, and in 1818 he had edited a
collection of Anglo-Norman Chansons. In 1823
he married Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. Dawson
Turner, on which occasion he obtained a roval
license to assume the name of I’algrave, that being”
the maiden name of his wife’s mother. He was
called to the bar in 1827; received the honour of
l‘uiglithood 1852, in acknowledgment of his con-
tiil‘iitions to constitutional and parliamentary hi5<
wry; and on the reconstruction of the Record
(mice in 1.938 he was appointed deputy-keeper of
the Records, which otliee be retained till his death.
Among his works are, ‘ Calendars of the Treasury
of the Exchequer :’ ‘ Parliamentary \Vrits;’ ‘Curia
Regis Records;’ ‘Documents illustrative of the
History of Scotland ;’ ‘ The Merchant and the Friar,’
an imaginative history of Marco Polo and Friar
Bacon; ‘ Handbook for Travellers in Northern Italy;’
‘History of England and Normandy ;’ and nu-

 
    

 

 
 
      
   
   
       
       
   
   
   
   
   
       
   
   
    

 
   
      

 
 

iistorian and historical antiquary, w tO
first became known inliterature as the editorof
some learned works published under the sanc-
tion of the commissioners of public records.
His name was Cohen originally, but this he
changed for his present familyr name. In 1831
he produced a valuable little work, entitled

History of England—AugloSaxon Period.”
for the series named “ The Family Library,”
and _in the following year was knighted for his
services to constitutional and parliamentary
literature. His valuable “Rise and Progress
of the English Commonwealth—Anglo-Saxon
Period; containing the Anglo-Saxon Policy and
the Institutions ar' ing out of the Laws and
Usagcs which prevailed before the Conquest,”
was produced in the same year, In the preli-
minary inquiries which led to the reform of the
inuiiiCipal corporations of England and \Vales,
he took an energetic and distinguished part,
and was soon afterwards created deputy keeper
ofhermajesty’sreeords. \Vhilstworthilyfilling
that post, he published a series of works of the
greatest value to the students of English litera-
ture ; some of the most important of which
were ” Calendars and Inventories of the Trea-
sury of the Exchequer,” “ Documents Illus-
trating the History of Scotland,” ant “ Truth?
and li’ictions of the Middle Ages.” The limit
Volume of his greatest work, the “ History 0
Normandy and England,” was given to the
I public in 1851. B. in London, 1788; D. July6,

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Sir Francis Palgrave.

     

Sir Francis :l’algrztve (whose proper name was
Cohen, which he changed to Palgrave on his con-
version from Judaism and his appointment to
otfiee), died on Saturdaylast, at the age of seventy-
. three. He was a good scholar and a clever writer.
His works are numerous and voluminous; but his
fame will n‘iainly rest upon his eontriliiutions to early
English History. His ‘ History of Normandy and
England,’ with some conspicuous faults, is a very
‘ able and valuable book—The Blaster of the Rolls
has appointed Mr. T. Duffus Hardy Assistant-
]{eeper of the Public Records, in th» place of
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