Elizabeth Palmer (1824/5–1901)

Schoolteacher. Taught in Esther Creswell’s school in Brighton, 1851. Ran a school in Clapham, 1861. Head of a school at Nilgherry House, 5 Lansdowne Road, Wimbledon, from at least 1866 until at least 1882; Reginald Hawthorn Hooker attended from 1875. From at least 1888 until 1900, in Brighton, Sussex; for part of that time ran a home for Anglo-Indian children at 50a Westbourne Villas.

Sources

Brighton and Hove blue book 1888–1900

Census returns of England and Wales 1851 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/1645/40/41), 1861 (RG9/368/261/39)

letter from J. D. Hooker, 14 January 1875

Post Office directory of the six home counties 1866, 1882.