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Palmer, H. R. (Herbert Richmond), 1877-1958


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    • Palmer, Herbert Richmond, 1877-1958
    • Palmer, Herbert Richmond, Sir, 1877-
    • Palmer, Richmond, 1877-1958
    • پالمر، هربرت رچموند

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        • Palmer, Herbert Richmond, Sir, 1877-

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        • found: His Sudanese memoirs, 1928.
        • found: OCLC, June 6, 2008(hdg.: Palmer, Herbert Richmond, Sir, 1877- ; usage: H.R. Palmer; Richmond Palmer; Sir Richmond Palmer)
        • found: Phantis, web site, June 6, 2008(Sir Herbert Richmond Palmer; b. Apr. 20, 1877; d. May 22, 1958; was colonial governor of Cyprus in the years following the 1931 uprising against the British rule)
        • found: Wikipedia, May 14, 2024(Richmond Palmer; Sir Herbert Richmond Palmer, KCMG CBE; English barrister who became a colonial supervisor for Britain during the inter-World War period; served as lieutenant governor in Nigeria, governor and Commander-in-Chief of The Gambia, and governor and Commander-in-Chief of Cyprus; born in 1877 in Lancaster; educated at Oundle School, Northamptonshire; entered Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 1896 as a Classics scholar; BA 1899, Bachelor of Laws a year later; worked his passage to California as a stoker in 1903; returned and called to The Bar in 1904, admitted to the Middle Temple; Master of Arts 1910; spent most of his long official service in Nigeria (26 years), where one of his early acts was to work toward abolition of slavery in Northern Provinces; strong advocate of principles of Indirect Rule devised by Lord Lugard; worked through Nigerian traditional rulers, which enhanced the prestige and influence of the Muslim emirs and contributed to spread of Islam during the colonial period; opposed work of Christian missionaries in e.g. Borno; became an outstanding Hausa and Arabic scholar and an authority on Hausa and Fulani civilisation and literature; sought sources for history of the Fulbe and Kanuri of Borno; traveled to Khartoum from Borno in 1918 to visit Gordon College, Khartoum, as a model for improving Muslim education, and obtained sources during that trip; the results were published in Sudanese Memoirs (1928) and The Bornu Sahara and Sudan (1936); went to The Gambia in 1930; went to Cypruss in 1933; retired in 1939; returned to Langham House, Oakham in Rutland; in 1940 after his family were evacualted to the United States, he lived in Keswick, practicing as a barrister in Liverpool and on the Northern Circuit; wrote about his African experiences in retirement; wrote translations of Arabic texts from Nigeria and elsewhere)

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