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
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Francis Turner Palgrave
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