Palmer, William, 1803-1885 (Personal Name)
- Palmer, William Patrick, 1803-1885
A treatise on the church of Christ, 1838: t.p. (William Palmer)
Concise DNB (Palmer, William, 1803-1885, theologian and ecclesiastical antiquary)
BM cat. (hdg.: Palmer, William, M.A., of Worcester College, Oxford)
Oxford dictionary of national biography, via WWW, November 24, 2014 (Palmer, William Patrick (1803-1885); Church of England clergyman; born on 14 February, died in London in October; studied the primitive origins of the English liturgy; held the vicarage of Whitchurch Canonicorum, Dorset (1846-1869) and the vicarage of Monckton-Wyld (1864-); prebend of Highchurch in Salisbury Cathedral (1849-1858); moved to Montagu Square, Marylebone, London in about 1869; wrote his Results of the 'Expostulation' of the Rt. Hon. W.E. Gladstone in their relation to the unity of Roman Catholicism (1875) under the pseudonym Umbra Oxoniensis; involved in the Oxford Movement)