Palgrave, FRANCIS TURNER, a gifted poet and critic, eldest son of the preceding, born in London, September 28, 1824. He was educated at Charterhouse School, became scholar of Balliol College, Oxford, and Fellow of Exeter, filled for five years the office of vice-principal of the Training College for Schoolmasters at Kneller Hall, was private secretary to Earl Granville, an official of the Privy-council, professor of Poetry at Oxford in 1886-95, and was a contributor to the present work. He died 25th October 1897. His works are Idylls and Songs (1854), Essays on Art (1866), Hymns (1867), The Five Days' Entertainments at Wentworth Grange (1868), Lyrical Poems (1871), and the Visions of England (1881). He is best known, however, as the editor of the admirably selected Golden Treasury of English Lyrics (1861; 2d series, 1897); The Children's Treasury of Lyrical Poetry (2 vols. 1875); The Sonnets and Songs of Shakespeare (1877); Selected Lyrical Poems of Herrick (1877), of Kcats (1885); and Treasury of Sacred Song (1889).
WILLIAM GIFFORD PALGRAVE, another son of Sir Francis, born in Westminster, January 24, 1826, was educated at the Charterhouse School and Trinity College, Oxford, graduating with great distinction in 1846. Next year he obtained a commission in the Bombay Native Infantry, which, however, he soon resigned to become a priest in the Society of Jesus. After a course of study at Laval in France and at Rome he was sent at his own request as a missionary to Syria, where he acquired a wonderfully intimate knowledge of Arabic. Summoned to France in 1860 by Napoleon III. to give an account of the Syrian massacres, he went disguised as a physician on a daring expedition at the emperor's expense through central Arabia, traversing the entire Wahabi kingdom, and returning to Europe through Baghdad and Aleppo (1862-63). With the consent of the emperor, he published his Narrative of a Year's Journey through Central and Eastern Arabia (2 vols. 1865), one of the best books of travel in the English language. Palgrave quitted the Society of Jesus in 1864, and was sent by the British government in 1865 to treat for the release of Consul Cameron and the other captives in Abyssinia. He was nominated consul at Sukhum-Kalé in 1866, at Trebizond in 1867, at the island of St Thomas in 1873, at Manila in 1876, and consul-general in the principality of Bulgaria in 1878, and in Siam in 1880. He was appointed British minister to Uruguay in 1884, and died at Monte Video, September 30, 1888. His other works are Essays on Eastern Questions (1872); Hermann Agha: an Eastern Narrative (2 vols. 1872); Dutch Guiana (1876); Ulysses: Studies in Many Lands (1887); A Vision of Life (1891, unfinished).