Florence Mary Spencer Palmer

PALMER, Florence Mary Spencer (Peggy Spencer Palmer). b. Thornbury, Gloucestershire, 27 July 1900; d. Bristol, 29 March 1987. She studied at the Tobias Matthay Piano School, London, where she won the Chappell Gold Medal. She then worked as pianist and secretary to Catherine Booth-Clibborn (1858-1955), who had left the Salvation Army and become a travelling evangelist. She was a music teacher at an independent school for girls, Clarendon School (1929-48), situated first at Malvern, then at Abergele. She moved to Bristol in 1948, and became a piano teacher at several schools, principally Redland High School and St Brandon’s School, Clevedon. Her first publication, In Memoriam, dates from as...