青山霊園 Maj-Gen Henry Spencer Palmer 1838-1893
南1種イ6側40－41番
Major General Henry Spencer Palmer
1838.04.30 - 1893.02.10
British army military engineer and surveyor
Father of modern water system in Japan
ヘンリー・スペンサー・パーマー
内務省雇工師。日本の近代水道の父。近代第一号である横浜水道を完成させた英国工兵少将
逝去時の住所 41 Imaicho Azabu, Tokio, Japan
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IN MEMORIAM
HENRY SPENCER PALMER
MAJOR GENERAL
HBM'S ROYAL ENGINEERS
Born April 30th 1838
Died February 10th 1893
Non omnis moriar
[I shall not wholly die]
This tablet is erected by his friends in Japan.
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[from DNB]
Palmer, Henry Spencer (1838-1893), major-general, royal engineers; nephew of Sir Henry James; entered royal engineers, 1856; took part in the survey of British-Columbia (1858-63), in the parliamentary boundaries commission under Disraeli's reform act (1867), and in the survey of Sinaitic Peninsula (1868-9); sent with the New Zealand party as chief astronomer to observe the transit of Venus, 1873; appointed engineer of the admiralty works at Hong Kong, 1878; became commanding royal engineer of the Manchester district, 1883; employed (1885-93) in designing waterworks for the Japanese government; retired as major-general. 1887.
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www.biographi.ca/en/bio/palmer_henry_spencer_12E.html
www.royalengineers.ca/palmer.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Spencer_Palmer
[Notes on Mrs H. S. Palmer]
Mary Jane Pearson Wright 1847 - 1934.01.10
the eldest daughter of Rev. Henry Press Wright, M.A. (c1816-1892.09.18) and Ann, née Nalder of Darshill, Somerset, England
born 1847 at Cephalnia, Greence, when her father was Army Chaplain in Cephalonia and the Southern Ionian Islands (1846-51)
1861 came to Canada when her father was transferred as Archdeacon of British Columbia (1861-65)
7 Oct 1863 married Lt. Henry Spencer Palmer, Royal Engineers, at New Westminster, British Columbia
2 Feb 1885 baptism of son Claude Arthur Frederick Palmer (d.1916) at Manchester, England
1921 at Penticton, Yale, British Columbia
10 Jan 1934 died at Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
[yc]
青山霊園／東京都港区
撮影：河野利彦（2017/02）
青山霊園 Maj-Gen Henry Spencer Palmer 1838-1893
南1種イ6側40－41番
Major General Henry Spencer Palmer
1838.04.30 - 1893.02.10
British army military engineer and surveyor
Father of modern water system in Japan
ヘンリー・スペンサー・パーマー
内務省雇工師。日本の近代水道の父。近代第一号である横浜水道を完成させた英国工兵少将
逝去時の住所 41 Imaicho Azabu, Tokio, Japan
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IN MEMORIAM
HENRY SPENCER PALMER
MAJOR GENERAL
HBM'S ROYAL ENGINEERS
Born April 30th 1838
Died February 10th 1893
Non omnis moriar
[I shall not wholly die]
This tablet is erected by his friends in Japan.
===============================
[from DNB]
Palmer, Henry Spencer (1838-1893), major-general, royal engineers; nephew of Sir Henry James; entered royal engineers, 1856; took part in the survey of British-Columbia (1858-63), in the parliamentary boundaries commission under Disraeli's reform act (1867), and in the survey of Sinaitic Peninsula (1868-9); sent with the New Zealand party as chief astronomer to observe the transit of Venus, 1873; appointed engineer of the admiralty works at Hong Kong, 1878; became commanding royal engineer of the Manchester district, 1883; employed (1885-93) in designing waterworks for the Japanese government; retired as major-general. 1887.
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www.biographi.ca/en/bio/palmer_henry_spencer_12E.html
www.royalengineers.ca/palmer.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Spencer_Palmer
[Notes on Mrs H. S. Palmer]
Mary Jane Pearson Wright 1847 - 1934.01.10
the eldest daughter of Rev. Henry Press Wright, M.A. (c1816-1892.09.18) and Ann, née Nalder of Darshill, Somerset, England
born 1847 at Cephalnia, Greence, when her father was Army Chaplain in Cephalonia and the Southern Ionian Islands (1846-51)
1861 came to Canada when her father was transferred as Archdeacon of British Columbia (1861-65)
7 Oct 1863 married Lt. Henry Spencer Palmer, Royal Engineers, at New Westminster, British Columbia
2 Feb 1885 baptism of son Claude Arthur Frederick Palmer (d.1916) at Manchester, England
1921 at Penticton, Yale, British Columbia
10 Jan 1934 died at Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
[yc]
青山霊園／東京都港区
撮影：河野利彦（2017/02）