Edmund Stuart Palmer

PALMER, Edmund Stuart. b. Wherwell Priory, Hampshire, 31 December 1856; d. Zanzibar, East Africa, 11 June 1931. Palmer studied medicine at Edinburgh University (MB, CM, 1882), but then decided to become a clergyman. He trained at Cuddesdon College (1888) and took Holy Orders (deacon 1889, priest 1890). He was curate of St Saviour, Leeds (1889-93), after which he became a missionary in the diocese of Zanzibar, working for the Universities’ Mission to Central Africa. He served as priest and doctor from 1893 to 1901. He was forced to return to England because of ill health: during the years that followed he was curate of St John’s, Clevedon, near Bristol (1902-04), and vicar of...