Richard Elliott Palmer
The name Richard Elliott Palmer is the first name on the monument.
The monument is in St Peter church burial ground, Newdigate, Surrey, England.
There are 86 other graves within this cemetery that are listed within the GPR database.
Richard Elliott Palmer was buried in 1931. The actual date of death is not currently recorded on the GPR database but it may be on the grave monument photograph.
Richard Elliott Palmer calculated age is 78.
Richard Elliott Palmer birth is given as 1853.
Richard Elliott Palmer is listed on the GPR grave numbered 396326.
Richard Elliott Palmer is listed as the first name on monument on the grave monument.
Richard Elliott Palmer has the record number 850358 within the GPR person name database table.
The record was added to the GPR on 29 May 2014
There is one image available for the monument listing Richard Elliott Palmer (see grave detail page).
The follow note is stored against Richard Elliott Palmer record:
Richard Elliott Palmer was the eldest son of John Palmer and Henrietta Stephens of Tralee, Co. Kerry, Ireland. His father established a successful corn milling business before his death in 1860. Richard Elliott Palmer obtained a commission in the Kerry Militia. He was promoted from sub-lieutenant to lieutenant in 1875 and from lieutenant to captain in June 1879 and then transferred to the reserve in July of the following year. He was to continue to use the title ‘captain’ for the rest of his life. In 1885 Palmer became the New York manager for a London-based wine shipping company. In 1888 he went bankrupt but in 1892 married a wealthy American woman. He returned to Ireland and stood as Unionist candidate in the West Kerry constituency at the 1892 general election, securing a paltry forty-three votes. He moved to Newdigate in Surrey, where he built a mansion named ‘Oaklands Park’ standing in landscaped grounds. There he also had a 124 acre dairy farm and a herd of pedigree Kerry cattle. In February 1894 his creditors once again caught up with him and he was brought before Croydon Bankruptcy Court where he was described as a ‘poor man with a rich wife’. It was claimed that apart from his Surrey farming activities ‘he went hunting and driving three or four horses about all over Ireland and lived in high style.’ He died in August 1931 leaving nearly £33,000 in his will ‘pending litigation’. So complicated were his affairs that they were not finally settled until 1937, three years after his wife’s death.