Palgrave, Sir Francis, historian, born in London, of Jewish parents of the name of Cohen; was called to the bar in 1827, and became Deputy-Keeper of Her Majesty's Records in 1838; was the author of a history of the “Rise and Progress of the English Commonwealth” and of a “History of England,” tracing it back chiefly to the Anglo-Norman period, among other works (1788‒1861).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Paley, William * Palgrave, Francis Turner