THE SALAMANCA CORPUS:

DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF ENGLISH DIALECT TEXTS

DURHAM

DING 2014: “A son of critic Francis Turner Palgrave, close friend of Lord Tennyson. Rev. Palgrave donnated several paintings belonging to his family to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. Between 1897 and 1902 he worked as a missionary in British Columbia, at Tahltan village, where he produced a grammar of the Tahltan language The MS of this grammar is kept at the B.C. Provincial Archives in Victoria. He became lame due to the harsh Winter conditions and had to return to England. In 1925 he is listed as having the copyright for his father’s works and living in Sunderland."

WORKS

1896. A List of Words and Phrases in Every-day Use by the Natives of Hetton-Le-Hole in the County of Durham Being Words not Ordinarily Accepted, or But Seldom Found in the Standard English of the Day. London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Henry Frowde. SC. EDD.

NOT IN KINGKONG PROJECT

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT HIS LIFE AND WORKS SEE

Dant, Charles H. 1902. Distinguished Churchmen and Phases of Church Work. London: Anthony Teherne & Co.: 207-208

http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Alt/alt.talk.royalty/2005-11/msg00942.html

http://www.geni.com/people/Francis-PALGRAVE/6000000003216112624

http://www.stikine.net/history4.html

VARIA 1800-1950

NORTH

DURHAM

Francis Temple Milne Palgrave

(1865-1955)