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George Palmer (18 January 1818 – 19 August 1897) was a proprietor of the Huntley & Palmers biscuit manufacturers of Reading in England. ==Family life== Palmer was born in Long Sutton in Somerset, the eldest son of William Palmer and his wife, Mary, the daughter of William Isaac of Sturminster Newton in Dorset. Both were Quaker families. His wife was a first cousin of Cyrus Clark and James Clark whp founded the shoemakers C. & J. Clark.〔T. A. B. Corley, ‘Palmer, George (1818–1897)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 (accessed 24 July 2015 )〕 His father died in 1826, and he was educated at Sidcot School near Weston-super-Mare, before becoming an apprentice to his uncle, who was a miller and confectioner. He married Elizabeth Sarah Meteyard in 1850. They had had six sons and four daughters. One daughter Emily married the evolutionary biologist Edward Bagnall Poulton. His wife died in 1894, and he died of a stroke at home three years later. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George Palmer (businessman)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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