Crossword clues for palgrave
palgrave
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Palgrave \Pal"grave\, n. See Palsgrave.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of palsgrave English)
Wikipedia
Palgrave may refer to:
- Palgrave, Ontario, Canada
- Palgrave, Suffolk, England
- Palgrave (surname)
- Palgrave Macmillan, an academic publishing company
Palgrave is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Sir Francis Palgrave (born Cohen) (1768–1861), UK historian, and his sons:
- Francis Turner Palgrave (1824–1897), British critic and poet
- William Gifford Palgrave (1826–1888), scholar of Arabic
- Sir Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave (1827–1919), banker, editor of The Economist and writer
- Sir Reginald Francis Douce Palgrave (1829–1904), Clerk of the British House of Commons
Usage examples of "palgrave".
Inspector Oliver Palgrave, had already let Drake know he considered his mission a waste of time.
For some reason known only to Palgrave, he thought it impossible that an American would dare kill an officer of the British government.
Ryder or Eva could answer, the door burst open, and Inspector Oliver Palgrave and several members of the Horse Guards burst into the room, weapons drawn.
Majesty has the utmost trust in Scotland Yard, and Palgrave thinks your cousin is the culprit.
One of the surest indications of this is the fact that the nation has suddenly begun to read poetry again, very much as the exhausted poetry-lover instinctively turns again to his Palgrave during the third week of vacation.
I looked at the bit about discretionary powers it turned out that the trustee could give the loot away to anyone it liked, and these Palgrave characters would only get what was left over.
What I thought she meant was that all these Palgrave characters had gone off to America or somewhere leaving no forwarding address, the way beneficiaries do sometimes, and I said the best thing would be to hire a private detective to track them down.
Sir Walter Palgrave, or am I to begin, as it were, with a clean slate?
You are behaving, however, as if tracing the descendants of Sir Walter Palgrave were a matter of considerable urgency.
I quite appreciate that the descendants of Sir Walter Palgrave, if of a mercenary disposition, would wish to ensure that the identity of the settlor was never discovered and that the trust company was therefore unable to exercise its discretion in accordance with his wishes.
First, he or she must be one of the descendants of Sir Walter Palgrave, or so closely connected with one of them as to have an interest in their financial advancement.
I accordingly took the opportunity to explain that I myself was in Monte Carlo for reasons connected with the Daffodil settlement, that I had been commissioned by Clementine to investigate the genealogy of the Palgrave family, and that by a curious coincidence my researches had led me to the South of France.
Sir Walter Palgrave and accordingly not a potential beneficiary of the Daffodil fund.
John Philby, and William Gifford Palgrave, to name only some English writers.
When he went abroad he needed the help of some loyal friend, like Francis Palgrave or Frederick Locker, to safeguard him against pitfalls, and to shield him from annoyance.