Person    | Male  Born 28/9/1824  Died 24/10/1897

Francis Turner Palgrave

Categories: Poetry

Poet & critic. Born Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Wrote hymns and compiled the "Golden Treasury of English Lyrics (1861)".Lived in Hampstead at one time (see our Samuel Sanders Teulon page). Died Kensington and buried in Barnes Cemetery.

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Francis Turner Palgrave

Greater London Council Francis Turner Palgrave, 1824 - 1897, compiler of the...

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