Inglis Palgrave
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Sir Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave (1827-1919) was a British economist. He was editor of The Economist, and author of Palgrave's Dictionary of Political Economy. He was knighted in 1909.
He was educated at Charterhouse School and the University of Cambridge. He then joined Dawson Turner Turner and Gurney, the banking firm of his grandfather Dawson Turner.
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He was the son of Francis Palgrave and his wife Elizabeth Turner, daughter of the banker Dawson Turner. His brothers were Francis Turner Palgrave, William Gifford Palgrave and Sir Reginald Palgrave. He married in 1859 Sarah Maria Brightwen, daughter of George Brightwen of Saffron Walden.
