Henry Spencer Palmer

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Major General Henry Spencer Palmer (30 April 1838 – 10 February 1893) was a British army military engineer and surveyor. He was born at Bangalore, India. He was educated at private schools and by tutors before being admitted in January 1856 to the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.

He did considerable surveying work in the British Columbia interior from 1858 to 1863.

Palmer was well known not only as a soldier but also as a scientist. He became ill and died while engaged in the construction of Yokohama harbour in Japan. He was for many years the Times correspondent in Japan, and buried in the foreign cemetery at Aoyama, Tokyo.

[edit] See also

• o-yatoi gaikokujin
• Anglo-Japanese relations
• Foreign cemeteries in Japan

[edit] External links

• Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online

[edit] References

• 'Henry Spencer Palmer, 1838-93', by Jiro Higuchi, Chapter 18, Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits, Volume IV, edited by Hugh Cortazzi, Japan Library, 2002 ISBN 1-903350-14-X