Background
He was educated, first by his father, then at Guelph grammar school, under the Review Edward Stewart.
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Arthur Palmer
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Trinity College.
Career
After about four years there he left, in 1856. In 1857 Palmer went to Cheltenham College in England, where he remained less than a year. The headmaster at the time was Arthur Dobson.
He entered Trinity College, Dublin, in 1859, and was elected to its Scholarship in 1861.
In 1863, he obtained a Bachelor of Arts as Senior Moderator and Gold Medallist in classics, as well as a Junior Moderator and Silver Medallist in experimental and natural science. In 1867 he was elected a fellow, and was admitted to Master of Arts, and in 1880 succeeded Robert Yelverton Tyrrell in the chair of Latin.
In 1888 he succeeded Thomas Ebenezer Webb as public orator. He was Doctor of Letters of his own university, and honorary Doctor of Laws of Glasgow (1890) and Doctorate.C.L. of Oxford (1894).
From 1867 to 1880 Palmer was a college tutor, and for some years he captained a team of old university cricketers, the Stoics.
During the last ten years of his life he suffered from bladder disease, dying of cancer on 14 December 1897. On 4 October 1879 Palmer married Frances Greene of Clevedon.They had two sons: Arthur, born on 13 May 1881, and Uther, born on 20 April 1892.
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Canadian-Irish