Edwin James Palmer
Edwin James Palmer was the Bishop of Bombay from 1908 until 1929. He was born in 1869 into a noted family and educated at Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford.Ordained in 1896 he was elected a Fellow of his old college and was Tutor and Chaplain there until he ascended to the Episcopate where (according to his Times obituary) he was
“moderate in opinion and accommodating in all things except where basic beliefs and principles were involved”.
A prolific author, in retirement he continued to serve the church until his death on 28 March 1954 and his extensive papers are preserved for posterity within the Lambeth Palace Library.
Palmer was the subject of a clerihew which acquired some currency at Oxford:
Said Christianity was a myth;
When he grew calmer
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