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Sir Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave FRS [[Fellow of the (Royal) Statistical Society|FSS}} (11 June 1827 - 25 January 1919) was a British economist.

He was educated at Charterhouse School and the University of Cambridge. In 1843 he joined the bank of Deacon, Williams and Co. He then in 1845 joined Dawson Turner Turner and Gurney in Yarmouth, the banking firm of his grandfather Dawson Turner. He was also a director of Barclay and Co. and Clerk of the House of Commons.

He was editor of The Economist, editor of the three volume Palgrave's Dictionary of Political Economy (1894-1899) and editor of the collected historical works of his father, Sir Francis Palgrave.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in June 1882.^[1] He was knighted in 1909.

Family

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.

References

^ "Lists of Royal Society Fellows 1660-2007". London: The Royal Society. Retrieved 4 August 2010.

Murray Milgate, 1987 [2008]. "Palgrave, Robert Harry Inglis," The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, v. 3, pp. 789-91.

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[1] "Lists of Royal Society Fellows 1660-2007". London: The Royal Society. Retrieved 4 August 2010.

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-Sir '''Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave''' [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]] (11 June 1827 - 25 January 1919) was a British economist.
+Sir '''Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave''' [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]] [[Fellow of the (Royal) Statistical Society|FSS}} (11 June 1827 - 25 January 1919) was a British economist.
-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. He was a director of Barclay and Co. and Clerk of the House of Commons.
+He was educated at [[Charterhouse School]] and the [[University of Cambridge]]. In 1843 he joined the bank of Deacon, Williams and Co. He then in 1845 joined Dawson Turner Turner and Gurney in Yarmouth, the banking firm of his grandfather Dawson Turner. He was also a director of Barclay and Co. and Clerk of the House of Commons.
-He was editor of ''[[The Economist]]'', editor of ''[[The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics#Earlier editions|Palgrave's Dictionary of Political Economy]]'' and editor of the collected historical works of his father, Sir [[Francis Palgrave]].
+He was editor of ''[[The Economist]]'', editor of the three volume ''[[The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics#Earlier editions|Palgrave's Dictionary of Political Economy]]'' (1894-1899) and editor of the collected historical works of his father, Sir [[Francis Palgrave]].
 He was elected a [[Fellow of the Royal Society]] in June 1882.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://royalsociety.org/Lists-of-Royal-Society-Fellows-1660-2007/|title=Lists of Royal Society Fellows 1660-2007|publisher=The Royal Society|accessdate=4 August 2010|location=London}}</ref>  He was knighted in 1909.