| LC control no. | n 50052996 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Palmer, H. R. (Herbert Richmond), 1877-1958 |
| Variant(s) | Palmer, Herbert Richmond, 1877-1958 Palmer, Herbert Richmond, Sir, 1877- Palmer, Richmond, 1877-1958 پالمر، هربرت رچموند |
| Associated country | Great Britain England Nigeria |
| Associated place | Cyprus Gambia |
| Birth date | 1877-04-20 |
| Death date | 1958-05-22 |
| Place of birth | Lancaster (England) |
| Field of activity | Great Britain--Colonies--Administration Sudan (Region)--Civilization |
| Profession or occupation | Colonial administrators Governors Lawyers Translators |
| Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. |
| Found in | His Sudanese memoirs, 1928. OCLC, June 6, 2008 (hdg.: Palmer, Herbert Richmond, Sir, 1877- ; usage: H.R. Palmer; Richmond Palmer; Sir Richmond Palmer) 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) 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) |
| Associated language | eng hau ara |
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