Fanny Bury Palliser

Fanny Bury Palliser (1805–1878) was an English writer on art, and lace.

Born on 23 September 1805, she was daughter of Joseph Marryat, M.P., of Wimbledon, by his wife Charlotte, daughter of Frederic Geyer of Boston, Massachusetts; she was a sister of Frederick Marryat the novelist. In 1832 she married Captain Richard Bury Palliser, who died in 1852, and with whom she had four sons and two daughters.

Palliser took a leading part in the organisation of the international lace exhibition held at South Kensington in 1874. She died at her residence, 33 Russell Road, Kensington, on 16 January 1878, and was buried in Brompton cemetery.

Palliser was a contributor to the Art Journal and The Academy, and was the author of:

She translated from the French Handbook of the Arts of the Middle Ages, 1855, by Charles Jules Labarte, and History of the Ceramic Art and History of Furniture, 1878, both by Albert Jacquemart. She also assisted her eldest brother Joseph Marryat in revising the second edition (1857) of his History of Pottery and Porcelain.

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 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1895). "". Dictionary of National Biography. 43. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 

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