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	[[General (United Kingdom)\|General]] '''Sir Arthur Power Palmer''', {{postnominals\|country=GBR\|sep=,\|GCB\|GCIE}} (25 June 1840 ~~–~~ 28 February 1904) was [[Commander-in-Chief, India]] between March 1900 and December 1902.		[[General (United Kingdom)\|General]] '''Sir Arthur Power Palmer''', {{postnominals\|country=GBR\|size=100%\|sep=,\|GCB\|GCIE}} (25 June 1840 – 28 February 1904) was [[Commander-in-Chief, India]] between March 1900 and December 1902.

	==Military career==		==Military career==
	Power Palmer was born in June 1840, at Karnaul ([[Karnal]]), [[India]], the son of Nicholas Palmer and Rebecca Carter Barrett.<ref>British Library IOR Ref No. N/1/56f.124, and L/MIL/9/240f.325</ref> Educated at [[Cheltenham College]], he was [[Officer (armed forces)\|commissioned]] into the [[5th Light Infantry\|5th Bengal Light Infantry]] in 1857.<ref name=odnb>[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35368 Arthur Power Palmer at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]</ref> He took part in subduing the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857\|Indian Mutiny]] in 1857.<ref name=odnb/>		Power Palmer was born in June 1840, at Karnaul ([[Karnal]]), [[India]], the son of Nicholas Palmer and Rebecca Carter Barrett.<ref>British Library IOR Ref No. N/1/56f.124, and L/MIL/9/240f.325</ref> Educated at [[Cheltenham College]], he was [[Officer (armed forces)\|commissioned]] into the [[5th Light Infantry\|5th Bengal Light Infantry]] in 1857.<ref name=odnb>[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35368 Arthur Power Palmer at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]</ref> He took part in subduing the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857\|Indian Mutiny]] in 1857.<ref name=odnb/>

	In 1880, he was appointed ~~Assistant Adjutant~~-~~General~~ in [[Bengal]] and in 1885 was [[~~Commander~~]] of the [[4th Duke of Cambridge's Own Hodson's Horse\|9th Bengal Cavalry]] for the [[Suakin Expedition]].<ref name=odnb/> In 1897 he took part in the [[Tirah Campaign]].<ref name=odnb/> He was also [[General Officer Commanding]] 2nd Division during the action at Chagru Kotal.<ref name=odnb/>		In 1880, he was appointed assistant adjutant-general in [[Bengal]] and in 1885 was [[commander]] of the [[4th Duke of Cambridge's Own Hodson's Horse\|9th Bengal Cavalry]] for the [[Suakin Expedition]].<ref name=odnb/> In 1897 he took part in the [[Tirah Campaign]].<ref name=odnb/> He was also [[General Officer Commanding]] 2nd Division during the action at Chagru Kotal.<ref name=odnb/>

	In January 1898, he became ~~Commander~~-in-~~Chief~~ [[Northern Command (India)\|Punjab Command]],<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1898/01/17/102546796.pdf \|title=New commander in India; General Sir Arthur Power Palmer Succeeds General Sir William Lockhart\|work=The New York Times\|date=17 January 1898\|access-date=18 February 2018}}</ref> and on 19 March 1900 he became ~~[[Commander~~-in-~~Chief,~~ India]] after the sudden death of [[William Lockhart (Indian Army officer)\|Sir William Lockhart]],<ref>{{London Gazette \|issue=27299 \|date=26 March 1901 \|page=2114}}</ref> holding this post for two and a half years.<ref name=odnb/>		In January 1898, he became commander-in-chief [[Northern Command (India)\|Punjab Command]],<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1898/01/17/102546796.pdf \|title=New commander in India; General Sir Arthur Power Palmer Succeeds General Sir William Lockhart\|work=The New York Times\|date=17 January 1898\|access-date=18 February 2018}}</ref> and on 19 March 1900 he became commander-in-chief of India after the sudden death of [[William Lockhart (Indian Army officer)\|Sir William Lockhart]],<ref>{{London Gazette \|issue=27299 \|date=26 March 1901 \|page=2114}}</ref> holding this post for two and a half years.<ref name=odnb/>

	In a farewell dinner held at [[Simla]] in late October 1902, the Viceroy, [[George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston\|Lord Curzon]] said the following about their relationship:<ref>Quoted in {{Cite newspaper The Times \|title=Latest Intelligence\|date=18 October 1902 \|page=7 \|issue=36902}}</ref>		In a farewell dinner held at [[Simla]] in late October 1902, the Viceroy, [[George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston\|Lord Curzon]] said the following about their relationship:<ref>Quoted in {{Cite newspaper The Times \|title=Latest Intelligence\|date=18 October 1902 \|page=7 \|issue=36902}}</ref>
	{{~~quote~~\|″I believe an impression prevails in outside circles that either the Commander-in-Chief in India leads the viceroy by the nose, or, more rarely, the Viceroy leads the Commander-in-Chief. But there is a third alternative, which, after all, is more likely, and which my experience of two Commanders-in-Chief leads me unhesitatingly to endorse. It is that neither party is ahead of the other, but both are abreast.		{{blockquote\|I believe an impression prevails in outside circles that either the Commander-in-Chief in India leads the viceroy by the nose, or, more rarely, the Viceroy leads the Commander-in-Chief. But there is a third alternative, which, after all, is more likely, and which my experience of two Commanders-in-Chief leads me unhesitatingly to endorse. It is that neither party is ahead of the other, but both are abreast.
	I am confident that Sir A. Power Palmer will support me when I say that this has been the happy and unbroken nature of our collaboration.″		I am confident that Sir A. Power Palmer will support me when I say that this has been the happy and unbroken nature of our collaboration.

	(Lord Curzon would later clash with Palmer's successor, [[Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener\|Lord Kitchener]], and resign as a result.)}}		(Lord Curzon would later clash with Palmer's successor, [[Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener\|Lord Kitchener]], and resign as a result.)}}

	Palmer returned to the United Kingdom in December 1902, and retired from the Army. He died in [[London]] in 1904 and is buried at [[Brompton Cemetery]].<ref name=odnb/>		Palmer returned to the United Kingdom in December 1902, and was received in audience by King [[Edward VII]] in January 1903, when he was invested with the insignia of a Knight Grand Cross of the Indian Empire (GCIE),<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times \|title=Court Circular \|date=17 January 1903 \|page=8 \|issue=36980}}</ref> which he had received in the [[1901 Birthday Honours]]. He retired from the Army the same year. He died in [[London]] in 1904 and is buried at [[Brompton Cemetery]].<ref name=odnb/>

	==Honours==		==Honours==
	* ~~'''~~KCB~~'''~~: [[Order of the Bath\|Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath]]		* KCB: [[Order of the Bath\|Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath]]
	* ~~'''~~GCB~~'''~~: [[Order of the Bath\|Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath]]		* GCB: [[Order of the Bath\|Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath]]
	* ~~'''~~GCIE~~'''~~: [[Order of the Indian Empire\|Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire]] ~~- ''~~9 November 1901'' - King's birthday Honours<ref>{{London Gazette \|issue=27374 \|date=9 November 1901 \|page=7287 \|supp=y}}</ref>		* GCIE: [[Order of the Indian Empire\|Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire]] – 9 November 1901 - King's birthday Honours<ref>{{London Gazette \|issue=27374 \|date=9 November 1901 \|page=7287 \|supp=y}}</ref>

	==Family==		==Family==
	In 1867 ~~he married~~ Julia Helen Aylmer née Harris (1848–1896)<ref>British Library IOR Ref No. N/1/121/92</ref> who died in October 1896 and is buried at the [[Old Christian Cemetery, Abbottabad]],<ref>British Library IOR Ref No. N/1/254/225</ref> [[Pakistan]]. ~~they~~ had a daughter Norah Blanche Aylmer ~~née~~ Palmer (1872–?) who married Major Gerard Beechey Howard Rice (1865–?)~~; then in 1898 he married Constance Gabrielle Richardson née Shaw (1864–1912), widow of Walter Milton Roberts~~. ~~He went on to have two more daughters with Constance: Celia de Courcy née Power-Palmer (1902–1973) and Frances Gabrielle née Power-Palmer (c1903–1987).<ref name=odnb/>~~		Palmer married in 1867 Julia Helen Aylmer née Harris (1848–1896)<ref>British Library IOR Ref No. N/1/121/92</ref> who died in October 1896 and is buried at the [[Old Christian Cemetery, Abbottabad]],<ref>British Library IOR Ref No. N/1/254/225</ref> [[Pakistan]]. They had a daughter:
			* Norah Blanche Aylmer Palmer (1872–?) who married Major Gerard Beechey Howard Rice (1865–?).

	~~== Further reading ==~~		He remarried in 1898 Constance Gabrielle Richardson née Shaw (1864–1912), widow of Walter Milton Roberts. They had two daughters:
	* ~~''Who Was Who 1897–1916'' p545~~		*Celia de Courcy Power-Palmer (1902–1973)
	* '~~'Oxford Dictionary of national Biography'' pp475–6~~		*Frances Gabrielle Power-Palmer (c. 1903 – 1987).<ref name=odnb/>
			Their mother died in 1912, whereupon they were informally adopted by [[Horace Smith-Dorrien]] and his wife Olive, whose mother was their father's stepsister.<ref>{{cite book\|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=c8ZvCwAAQBAJ&pg=PP154\|title=Smith-Dorrien \|first= Brigadier Colin R. \|last=Ballard \|year=2015\|publisher=Verdun Press\|isbn=978-1786255228}}</ref>

	==References==		==References==
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	== External links ==		==Further reading==
			* ''Who Was Who 1897–1916'' p. 545

			==External links==
	* {{webarchive \|url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20011125052626/http://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/handlist_o.htm \|title=Papers of Sir Ralph Oakden \|date=2001-11-25}}		* {{webarchive \|url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20011125052626/http://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/handlist_o.htm \|title=Papers of Sir Ralph Oakden \|date=2001-11-25}}

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	In 1880, he was appointed Assistant Adjutant-General in [[Bengal]] and in 1885 was [[Commander]] of the [[4th Duke of Cambridge's Own Hodson's Horse\|9th Bengal Cavalry]] for the [[Suakin Expedition]].<ref name=odnb/> In 1897 he took part in the [[Tirah Campaign]].<ref name=odnb/> He was also [[General Officer Commanding]] 2nd Division during the action at Chagru Kotal.<ref name=odnb/>		In 1880, he was appointed Assistant Adjutant-General in [[Bengal]] and in 1885 was [[Commander]] of the [[4th Duke of Cambridge's Own Hodson's Horse\|9th Bengal Cavalry]] for the [[Suakin Expedition]].<ref name=odnb/> In 1897 he took part in the [[Tirah Campaign]].<ref name=odnb/> He was also [[General Officer Commanding]] 2nd Division during the action at Chagru Kotal.<ref name=odnb/>

	In January 1898, he became Commander-in-Chief [[Northern Command (India)\|Punjab Command]],<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1898/01/17/102546796.pdf \|title=New commander in India; General Sir Arthur Power Palmer Succeeds General Sir William Lockhart\|work=The New York Times\|date=17 January 1898\|access-date=18 February ~~2022~~}}</ref> and on 19 March 1900 he became [[Commander-in-Chief, India]] after the sudden death of [[William Lockhart (Indian Army officer)\|Sir William Lockhart]],<ref>{{London Gazette \|issue=27299 \|date=26 March 1901 \|page=2114}}</ref> holding this post for two and a half years.<ref name=odnb/>		In January 1898, he became Commander-in-Chief [[Northern Command (India)\|Punjab Command]],<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1898/01/17/102546796.pdf \|title=New commander in India; General Sir Arthur Power Palmer Succeeds General Sir William Lockhart\|work=The New York Times\|date=17 January 1898\|access-date=18 February 2018}}</ref> and on 19 March 1900 he became [[Commander-in-Chief, India]] after the sudden death of [[William Lockhart (Indian Army officer)\|Sir William Lockhart]],<ref>{{London Gazette \|issue=27299 \|date=26 March 1901 \|page=2114}}</ref> holding this post for two and a half years.<ref name=odnb/>

	In a farewell dinner held at [[Simla]] in late October 1902, the Viceroy, [[George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston\|Lord Curzon]] said the following about their relationship:<ref>Quoted in {{Cite newspaper The Times \|title=Latest Intelligence\|date=18 October 1902 \|page=7 \|issue=36902}}</ref>		In a farewell dinner held at [[Simla]] in late October 1902, the Viceroy, [[George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston\|Lord Curzon]] said the following about their relationship:<ref>Quoted in {{Cite newspaper The Times \|title=Latest Intelligence\|date=18 October 1902 \|page=7 \|issue=36902}}</ref>

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[[General (United Kingdom)|General]] '''Sir Arthur Power Palmer''', {{postnominals|country=GBR|sep=,|GCB|GCIE}} (25 June 1840 – 28 February 1904) was [[Commander-in-Chief, India]] between March 1900 and December 1902.

==Military career==
Power Palmer was born in June 1840, at Karnaul ([[Karnal]]), [[India]], the son of Nicholas Palmer and Rebecca Carter Barrett.<ref>British Library IOR Ref No. N/1/56f.124, and L/MIL/9/240f.325</ref> Educated at [[Cheltenham College]], he was [[Officer (armed forces)|commissioned]] into the [[5th Light Infantry|5th Bengal Light Infantry]] in 1857.<ref name=odnb>[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35368 Arthur Power Palmer at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]</ref> He took part in subduing the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857|Indian Mutiny]] in 1857.<ref name=odnb/>

In 1880, he was appointed Assistant Adjutant-General in [[Bengal]] and in 1885 was [[Commander]] of the [[4th Duke of Cambridge's Own Hodson's Horse|9th Bengal Cavalry]] for the [[Suakin Expedition]].<ref name=odnb/> In 1897 he took part in the [[Tirah Campaign]].<ref name=odnb/> He was also [[General Officer Commanding]] 2nd Division during the action at Chagru Kotal.<ref name=odnb/>

In January 1898, he became Commander-in-Chief [[Northern Command (India)|Punjab Command]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1898/01/17/102546796.pdf |title=New commander in India; General Sir Arthur Power Palmer Succeeds General Sir William Lockhart|work=The New York Times|date=17 January 1898|access-date=18 February 2022}}</ref> and on 19 March 1900 he became [[Commander-in-Chief, India]] after the sudden death of [[William Lockhart (Indian Army officer)|Sir William Lockhart]],<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27299 |date=26 March 1901 |page=2114}}</ref> holding this post for two and a half years.<ref name=odnb/>

In a farewell dinner held at [[Simla]] in late October 1902, the Viceroy, [[George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston|Lord Curzon]] said the following about their relationship:<ref>Quoted in {{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Intelligence|date=18 October 1902 |page=7 |issue=36902}}</ref>
{{quote|″I believe an impression prevails in outside circles that either the Commander-in-Chief in India leads the viceroy by the nose, or, more rarely, the Viceroy leads the Commander-in-Chief. But there is a third alternative, which, after all, is more likely, and which my experience of two Commanders-in-Chief leads me unhesitatingly to endorse. It is that neither party is ahead of the other, but both are abreast.
I am confident that Sir A. Power Palmer will support me when I say that this has been the happy and unbroken nature of our collaboration.″

(Lord Curzon would later clash with Palmer's successor, [[Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener|Lord Kitchener]], and resign as a result.)}}

Palmer returned to the United Kingdom in December 1902, and retired from the Army. He died in [[London]] in 1904 and is buried at [[Brompton Cemetery]].<ref name=odnb/>

==Honours==
* '''KCB''': [[Order of the Bath|Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath]]
* '''GCB''': [[Order of the Bath|Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath]]
* '''GCIE''': [[Order of the Indian Empire|Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire]] - ''9 November 1901'' - King's birthday Honours<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27374 |date=9 November 1901 |page=7287 |supp=y}}</ref>

==Family==
In 1867 he married Julia Helen Aylmer née Harris (1848–1896)<ref>British Library IOR Ref No. N/1/121/92</ref> who died in October 1896 and is buried at the [[Old Christian Cemetery, Abbottabad]],<ref>British Library IOR Ref No. N/1/254/225</ref> [[Pakistan]]. they had a daughter Norah Blanche Aylmer née Palmer (1872–?) who married Major Gerard Beechey Howard Rice (1865–?); then in 1898 he married Constance Gabrielle Richardson née Shaw (1864–1912), widow of Walter Milton Roberts. He went on to have two more daughters with Constance: Celia de Courcy née Power-Palmer (1902–1973) and Frances Gabrielle née Power-Palmer (c1903–1987).<ref name=odnb/>

== Further reading ==
* ''Who Was Who 1897–1916'' p545
* ''Oxford Dictionary of national Biography'' pp475–6

==References==
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== External links ==
* {{webarchive |url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20011125052626/http://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/handlist_o.htm |title=Papers of Sir Ralph Oakden |date=2001-11-25}}

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