Palmer, William: Forty Years in Natal: Reminiscences of a Colonist. Based on a Lecture delivered before the Bellair Literary and Political Association

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Palmer, William : Forty Years in Natal: Reminiscences of a Colonist. Based on a Lecture delivered before the Bellair Literary and Political Association

(Pietermaritzburg: Africana Book Collectors, 1989) 0620140984

ISBN 0620140984

Africana Book Collectors Pamphlet Series No. 5. Grant Christison's copy, with his pencilled note on the title page: "Wrote the Intro., saw it through the press." New introduction by Grant Christison. Facsimile reprint of the 1891 edition by P. Davis & Sons; number 2 of an edition limited to 150 copies, signed by the publisher, Dennis Slotow. 210 x 146mm; saddle-stitched printed card wrappers; pp. 13; contemporary advertisements. Slightest bump to top fore-corner. Very good condition. "William Palmer was born in Southampton in 1832. He emigrated to Natal with his parents John & Charlotte aboard the Aliwal in 1849. In 1858 he went into business with James Blackwood, a Durban merchant, but withdrew from the firm of Palmer & Blackwood in July 1861, to farm sugar. Palmer took a leading role in the 'benevolent, educational, and financial institutions of Natal' [Natal Witness, 20 May, 1907]. For a time he served as secretary to the Immigrants Aid Office. Among the various positions which Palmer held during his life, were committee member of the Durban Botanical Society, Member of the Legislative Assembly, and founding member of the Natal Building Society. He served as Mayor of Durban in 1871-1872. Palmer died in Durban on 9 May, 1907 and his funeral was 'the largest witnessed in Durban since the decease of the Rt. Hon. Mr Harry Escombe, and of Sir John Robinson' [Natal Witness, 13 May, 1907]."

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