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Henry Spencer Palmer

FRAS
Henry Spencer Palmer
Born(1838-04-30)30 April 1838
Bangalore, British India
Died10 February 1893(1893-02-10) (aged 54)
House at Azabu, 41 Imai-cho, Azabu, Tokyo, Japan[1]
Buried
Aoyama Cemetery, Tokyo, Japan
AllegianceHenry Spencer Palmer United Kingdom
BranchBritish Army
Years of service1856–1887
RankMajor General
Service number949[2]
UnitCorps of Royal Engineers[3]
Commands heldChief Astronomer, Transit of Venus expedition to New Zealand, 1874–75[3]
CRE, Manchester, 1883-85[3][4]
Known forForeign advisor to Meiji Japan
Awards
  • Médaille de l'Institut de France
  • 旭日章 · Order of the Rising Sun, 3rd Class[3][5]
MemorialsMonument, Yokohama Waterworks, Japan, 1939[6]
Bronze bust, Nogeyama Park, Yokohama, Japan, 1987
Spouse(s)
Mary Jane Pearson Wright
(m. 1863)
[3]
RelationsHenry James (uncle)
Other workCivil engineer, Japan

Major General Henry Spencer Palmer FRAS (30 April 1838 – 10 February 1893) was a British Army military engineer and surveyor, noted for his work in developing Yokohama harbor in the Empire of Japan as a foreign advisor to the Japanese government

  1. ^ "The House at Azabu (2) Two British Japanophiles" (PDF). Abazu: Community Information Paper. Vol. 29. December 2014. p. 6.
  2. ^ Connolly, Thomas William John (1898). Richard Fielding Edwards (ed.). Roll of Officers of the Corps of Royal Engineers from 1660 to 1898. Chatham: The Royal Engineers Institute. p. 20.
  3. ^ a b c d e WO 25/3913/311: Statement of the Services of Henry Spencer Palmer of the Royal Engineers with a Record of such other Particulars as may be useful in case of his Death, The National Archives, Kew, p. 311
  4. ^ Hart, Henry George (1884). The New Army List, Militia List, Yeomanry Cavalry List and Indian Civil Service List, for 1884. Vol. 45. London: John Murray. p. 206.
  5. ^ Higuchi, Jiro (2002). The Biography of Major-General Henry Spencer Palmer R.E. F.R.A.S. (1838–1893) (PDF). Tokyo: Jiro Higuchi.
  6. ^ Anonymous (1939). "Major-General Henry Spencer Palmer and the Yokohama Waterworks" (PDF). The Royal Engineers Journal. 53 (December 1939). Chatham: The Institution of Royal Engineers: 495–496.

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