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Biography
Birth and Baptism
Thomas was born on 27 August 1804 baptized the following day, 28 Aug of the same year, in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England.[1][2] He was the son of William Palgrave and Elizabeth Barker.
Education
Palgrave began to study mosses while a schoolboy in 1818, doubtless influenced by his relatives, two of whom were Dawson Turner and William Jackson Hooker.
He was also bryologically active between 1856 and 1869, during which period he corresponded with William Wilson (1799-1871) of Warrington and knew Frederick Price Marrat (1820-1904), who also lived in Liverpool.
His herbarium and letters are at Merseyside Museum in Liverpool.
Further plants are at the Natural History Museum in London, as well as letters in the William Wilson correspondence.[3]
Death
Thomas was buried on 3 Feb 1891 in Llansanffraid Glan Conwy, Denbighshire, Wales.[4][5]St Ffraid Churchyard (Llansanffraid Glan Conwy, Conwy, Wales). Thomas Palgrave's headstone. Personally photographed by Hilary Gadsby, 26 May 2023.
Research Notes
Thomas trained for the law, and served articles in Yarmouth with Thomas Fowler Steward.
Not long after his father went to Dublin (1826), Thomas moved to Liverpool to practise as a solicitor and notary, specializing in municipal law.
After William Palgrave died in 1838, Thomas’s mother went to live with him in Liverpool.
In 1841 Thomas lived in Grove Street; in 1851 at 100 Lodge Lane, Toxteth Park; and in 1861 at Park Lodge, Princes Park, Toxteth.
In 1853, he had offices at 3, Lord Street.
Thomas did not marry, and by 1878 he had retired from practice to Bryn-y-gynog, Llansanffraid Glan Conwy, Denbighshire, in the Conwy Valley.[6]
There he served as a magistrate, died on January 30th 1891, and was interred.
April 1878 A memorial window was placed in the chancel of the Great Yarmouth Minster, The inscription reads:
To the glory of God and in affectionate remembrance of William Palgrave, Esq mayor of this borough A.D. 1814, who died Jan 11th 1838, aged 67, and Elizabeth his wife, who died March 23rd 1863, aged 83, and was the only daughter of Samuel Barker Esq also mayor of this borough A.D. 1800, also four of their children namely Elizabeth Matilda widow of John Ker, died July 30th 1869, aged 69, William Barker Palgrave, died August 7th 1851, aged 48, Robert Palgrave, M.D. died October 27th 1841 aged 2*, John Palgrave, died Sep 18th 1868, aged 54. This window is erected A.D. 187* by the surviving children of the above William and Elizabeth Palgrave namely Thomas Palgrave, Mary Elizabeth widow of Henry Alderson Woodhouse, Katharine, wife of James Marke Wood, Charles George Palgrave, Jane Anne, wife of Quintin Fleming, and Eleanor Turner, wife of Samuel Nightingale.[7]
THOMAS PALGRAVE (1804-1891) by Mark Lawley
Sources
- ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N1MX-X9Z : 22 March 2020), Thomas Palgrave, 1804.
- ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NFCC-5BJ : 18 September 2020), Thomas Palgrave, 1804.
- ↑ citation needed
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Burial:
"FreeReg UK Parish Register database"
Denbighshire; Llansanffraid Glan Conwy; St Ffraid; Parish Register; File line number: 416
FreeReg Transcription (accessed 30 December 2022)
Thomas Palgrave burial on 3 Feb 1891 in Llansanffraid Glan Conwy, Denbighshire, Wales. - ↑
Burial:
"Denbighshire Burials", database with images
Page: 78
FindMyPast Image - FindMyPast Transcription (accessed 10 May 2023)
Thomas Palgrave burial (died age 86) on 3 Feb 1891 in Llansanffraid Glan Conwy, Llansanffraid Glan Conway, Denbighshire, Wales. - ↑ https://historicplacenames.rcahmw.gov.uk/placenames/recordedname/fe20595c-0f68-4a71-ae68-6e2e47845e57
- ↑ Chronological Retrospect of the History of Yarmouth and Neighbourhood from A.D. 46 to 1884 2012
