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. Inspector of Schools. _bro son_, Francis James NEWTON (b. 1857), C.M.G.; Treasurer of Southern Rhodesia, 1902; some time Administrator of British Bechuanaland, and Colonial Secretary British Honduras and Barbadoes.--["Who's Who."] _me bro son_, Richard Monckton MILNES (1809-1885), first Baron HOUGHTON; M.P. for Pontefract, 1837; distinguished in literary society; author of poems and critical essays. Did much to secure Copyright Act; assisted in the preparation of the "Tribune," 1836; established the "Philobiblon Soc.," 1853.--["Dict. N. Biog.," and "Life" by Wemyss Reid.] _me bro son son_, Robert Offley Ashburton CREWE-MILNES, first Earl of CREWE, son of Lord Houghton; Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, 1892-1895.--["Who's Who."] #NORTHBROOK#, Earl.--See BARING. Robert Harris Inglis #PALGRAVE# (b. 1827), F.R.S., economist and statistician; editor of the "Economist"; also of "Dictionary of Political Economy."--["Who's Who."] _me fa_, Dawson TURNER (1775-1858), F.R.S., botanist and antiquary.--["Dict. N. Biog."] _me fa bro_, Joseph TURNER, Senior Wrangler, 1768. _fa_, Sir Francis PALGRAVE (1788-1861) (son of Meyer COHEN, adopted the name Palgrave in 1823), historian; deputy-keeper, and assisted in the publication, of H.M. Records. Author of the "Rise and Progress of the English Commonwealth," 1832; "History of England and Normandy," 1851; and other works; greatly promoted study of mediaeval history; knighted, 1832.--["Dict. N. Biog."] _me_, Elizabeth, nee Dawson TURNER, assisted her husband in his literary work.--[Unpublished information.] _me bro_, Dawson William TURNER (1815-1885), D.C.L., philanthropist and educational writer; Demy of Magdalen Coll., Oxford. _bro_, Francis Turner PALGRAVE (1824-1897), poet and art critic; first-class Lit. Hum.; Professor of Poetry at Oxford; editor of "Golden Treasury"; author of many critical essays and other publications.--["Dict. N. Biog.," Suppl. iii.] _bro_, W. Gifford PALGRAVE (1826-1888), traveller and diplomatist; at twenty years of age gained first-class Lit. Hum. and second-class Math.; became Roman Catholic, and travelled as Jesuit missionary in Syria and Arabia, disguised for the purpose. Author of "A Year's Journey through Eastern and Central Arabia." Severed his connection with the Jesuits in 1865, and thenceforward served as English diplomatist in various distant countries.--["Dict. N. Biog."] _bro_, Sir Reginald F.D. PALGRAVE (1
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