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The Biography of Major-General Henry Spencer Palmer, R.E., F.R.A.S. (1838-1893), Compiled by Jiro Higuchi. [Yokohama, Jiro Higuchi] 2002. 224 p., illus. Second ed.
Lt. Henry Spencer Palmer, an officer in the Royal Engineers, served in British Columbia under Col. R. C. Moody from 1858 to 1863. He was attached to the Survey Dept. under Capt. R. M. Parsons, where his duties included several exploratory surveys, laying out trails, supervising and inspecting road construction. Following his return to Britain with the detachment, he had a number of postings, serving as a surveyor, engineer and astronomer with the Ordnance Survey, the survey of the Sinai, the Transit of Venus, and in other places. He was invited to Japan to advise on a waterworks for the city of Yokohama. In 1887 he retired from the Royal Engineers and established a successful practice in Yokohama as a civil engineer, and was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun. He died in Tokyo in February 1893.
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