He received his education at Colerne, Wilts, and at Marlborough Grammar School. Of his three sons, John proceeded to Cambridge and took holy orders; Charles and Edmund, educated at Eton, went respectively into the Army and Navy. It is curious to note how strong has been the military tradition in the family. Charles became Colonel of the 10th (Prince of Wales’s) Hussars, following upon the scandal which discredited the former Colonel of that regiment, many of whose officers, charged with cowardice before the enemy in the Peninsula, were transferred to other regiments, and became known as the “Elegant Extracts.” Their places were filled by officers from other sources, and the 10th Hussars thereupon acquired the title of “Prince’s Mixture.” Colonel Palmer subsequently rose to the rank of general officer. Edmund was that distinguished captain in the Navy who, when in command of H.M.S. _Hebrus_ in 1814, captured the French frigate, _L’Etoile_, the last of the enemy’s ships to be taken at the end of the long war. His son, Colonel Edmund Palmer, R.A., has himself carried on the tradition, and given sons of his own to the service of his country. His son Edmund fell to the bullet of an Afghan hillman, after he had captured a tower in one of the passes of that distant country whose sun-baked rocks have been stained with the blood of many a gallant Englishman. John Jervis Palmer, his brother, captain in the Egyptian Army, died of pneumonia at the frontier post of Wady Halfa, looking out across the parching sands of the Soudan. _Printed by Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ld., London and Aylesbury._ Transcriber’s Notes Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed. Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained. Typographical errors in posters have been transcribed as-is. Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained; occurrences of inconsistent hyphenation have not been changed. Superscripted letters, including the abbreviations for shilling and pence, are shown here as normal letters, preceded by a circumflex: ^s. Some of them were printed in italics, but for readability, that is not shown here. Volume II is available at Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org) as eBook number 58668 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58668). It contains an Index to both volumes. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Stage-coach and Mail in Days of Yore, Volume 1 (of 2), by Charles G. Harper