Reginald Palgrave

Sir Reginald Francis Douce Palgrave KCB (1829 – 13 July 1904, Salisbury) was Clerk of the British House of Commons. The position was also known as "Under Clerk of the Parliaments".

Reginald Palgrave was son of Francis Palgrave and his wife Elizabeth Turner, daughter of banker Dawson Turner. His brothers were Francis Turner Palgrave, William Gifford Palgrave, and Inglis Palgrave. He became a solicitor in 1851; but two years later was appointed a clerk in the House of Commons, becoming clerk of the House on the retirement of Sir Erskine May in 1886. He married Grace Battley, daughter of Richard Battley, in 1857. He was made a K.C.B. in 1892, and retired from his office in January 1900.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "". Encyclopædia Britannica. 20 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 

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