Richard Battley [SEP] date of birth
Richard Battley
Richard Battley (1770–1856), was an English chemist.
Life.
Battley was the son of an architect in Wakefield, where he was born about 1770. He was educated at the Wakefield Grammar School, and after serving as pupil with a physician in Wakefield was appointed medical attendant in connection with the collieries in the district of Newcastle-on-Tyne. He then went to London to attend the medical schools, and after concluding his studies entered the service of the Royal Navy as an assistant surgeon
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3. Sir Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave (1827–1919), economist, knighted 1909, author of "Palgrave's Dictionary of Political Economy", and editor of "Palgrave's Collected Historical Works". He married in 1859 Sarah Maria Brightwen, daughter of George Brightwen.
4. Sir Reginald Francis Douce Palgrave (1829–1904), Clerk of the House of Commons 1886–1902. Married Grace Battley, daughter of Richard Battley, in 1857.
Palgrave's wife predeceased him in August 1852.
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