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'''Ernest Clephan Palmer''' (1883-1954) was a British author and [[journalist]]. |
'''Ernest Clephan Palmer''' (1883-1954) was a British author and [[journalist]]. |
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==Biography== |
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Palmer was born in [[Ipswich]] and worked for forty years as an editor for the [[London Daily News]] and the [[News Chronicle]]. For twenty-three years Palmer was a member of the Parliamentary Press Gallery. Throughout is career he also worked for the West Sussex Gazette, the [[Daily Express]], the [[Morning Leader]] and the [[Daily Mail]].<ref>[[Richard Whittington-Egan|Richard Whittington Egan]]. (1991). ''William Roughead's Chronicles of Murder''. Lochar Pub. p. 380</ref> |
Palmer was born in [[Ipswich]] and worked for forty years as an editor for the [[London Daily News]] and the [[News Chronicle]]. For twenty-three years Palmer was a member of the Parliamentary Press Gallery. Throughout is career he also worked for the West Sussex Gazette, the [[Daily Express]], the [[Morning Leader]] and the [[Daily Mail]].<ref>[[Richard Whittington-Egan|Richard Whittington Egan]]. (1991). ''William Roughead's Chronicles of Murder''. Lochar Pub. p. 380</ref> |
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Ernest Clephan Palmer (1883-1954) was a British author and journalist.
Biography
Palmer was born in Ipswich and worked for forty years as an editor for the London Daily News and the News Chronicle. For twenty-three years Palmer was a member of the Parliamentary Press Gallery. Throughout is career he also worked for the West Sussex Gazette, the Daily Express, the Morning Leader and the Daily Mail.[1]
He served in France and Flanders in World War I. Palmer with the support of his friend Arthur Conan Doyle was involved in solving the Oscar Slater case.[2] Palmer married Claudine Pattie Sapey, they had two sons.
Palmer was interested in psychical research and spiritualism, he was a friend of the psychical investigator Harry Price.[3]
Publications
- The Solitary Blackbird (1954)
- The Young Blackbird (1953)
- The Riddle of Spiritualism (1927)
See also
References
- ^ Richard Whittington Egan. (1991). William Roughead's Chronicles of Murder. Lochar Pub. p. 380
- ^ Sally Patrick Johnson. (1962). Everyman's Ark: A Collection of True First-person Accounts of Relationships Between Animals and Men. Harper. p. 62
- ^ Alfred Douglas. (1982). Extra-Sensory Powers: A Century of Psychical Research. Overlook Press. p. 201