Palgrave
Palgrave names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Palgrave WILLIAM GIFFORD, an English traveler
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM GIFFORD, an English traveler, son of Sir Francis; born in Westminster, England, Jan. 24, 1826. He was educated at the Charterhouse School and Oxford, graduating with great distinction in 1846. Next year he obtained a commission in the Bombay Native Infantry, which he resigned to become a priest in the Society of Jesus. After studying 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 Bagdad and Aleppo (1862-1863). His "Narrative of a Year's Journey Through Central and Eastern Arabia" (1865), is one of the best books of travel in the English language. Palgrave quitted the Society of Jesus in 1864. He was nominated consul at Sukhum-Kalé in 1866, at Trebizond in 1867, 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. His other works are: "Essays on Eastern Questions" (1872); "Hermann Agha: an Eastern Narrative" (1872); "Dutch Guiana" (1876); and "Ulysses, or Scenes and Studies in Many Lands" (1887). He died in Montevideo, Sept. 30, 1888.
Palgrave FRANCIS TURNER, an English poet and critic
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
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.
Palgrave SIR FRANCIS, an English historian
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SIR FRANCIS, an English historian; born in London, England, in 1788. He was a Jew, and his original name was Cohen, which he changed to Palgrave on embracing Christianity in 1823. He was called to the bar in 1827, and made himself known by his edition of the "Parliamentary Writs from 1273 to 1327" (1827-1834); "History of England" (1831); "Rise and Progress of the Commonwealth" (1832). In 1832 he was knighted. His other works include "Truths and Fictions of the Middle Ages" (1844); "Reports of the Deputy-Keeper of the Public Records" (1840- 1861); and "History of Normandy and England" (1851-1860). He died in Hampstead, July 6, 1861.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
All three men were long dead when Collier's compiled these notices in 1921, and the biographical facts have not moved. What has moved is reputation: Francis Turner Palgrave's "Golden Treasury of English Lyrics" (1861) is still in print and still the best-known anthology of its kind, though modern critics fault its Victorian taste — notably its thin showing for Donne and Blake — and the editions now sold are heavily revised. William Gifford Palgrave's "Narrative of a Year's Journey Through Central and Eastern Arabia," called here "one of the best books of travel in the English language," was overtaken by Charles Doughty's "Arabia Deserta" and later by Philby's and Thomas's crossings, and parts of Palgrave's route have been doubted by twentieth-century Arabists. Meanwhile the surname belongs mainly to a publisher: the economics dictionary compiled by Sir Francis's son Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave gave its name to the imprint Palgrave Macmillan, adopted in 2000.
Written for this edition, 2026.