Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave (1827–1919)

Banker. Educated at Charterhouse; entered the banking-house of Gurneys & Co. (later Barclay’s), in which his grandfather Dawson Turner was a partner. Wrote on banking, statistics, and currency. Editor, the Economist, 1877–83. Brother of Francis Turner and William Gifford Palgrave. Knighted, 1909. FRS 1882.