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Palgrave (FRANCIS TURNER an English poet)

FRANCIS TURNER, an English poet and critic, eldest son of the preceding; born in London, England, Sept. 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, and an official in the Educational Department of the Privy-council. He became Professor of Poetry at Oxford in 1886. His works are "Idylls and Songs" (1854); "Essays on Art" (1866); "Hymns" (1867); "Lyrical Poems" (1871); and the "Visions of England" (1881). He is best known, however, as the editor of "Golden Treasury of English Lyrics" (1861, and a 2d series in 1895); "The Children's Treasury of Lyrical Poetry" (2 vols. 1875); "The Sonnets and Songs of Shakespeare" (1877); "Selected Lyrical Poems of Herrick" (1877), of Keats (1885); and "Treasury of Sacred Song" (1889). He died Oct. 24, 1897.