Arthur Power Palmer

General Sir Arthur Power Palmer, (25 June 1840 – 28 February 1904) was Commander-in-Chief, India between March 1900 and December 1902.

Military career Power Palmer was born in June 1840, at Karnaul (Karnal), India, the son of Nicholas Palmer and Rebecca Carter Barrett. Educated at Cheltenham College, he was commissioned into the 5th Bengal Light Infantry in 1857. He took part in subduing the Indian Mutiny in 1857. and on 19 March 1900 he became commander-in-chief of India after the sudden death of Sir William Lockhart, holding this post for two and a half years.

Palmer returned to the United Kingdom in December 1902, and was received in audience by King Edward VII in January 1903, when he was invested with the insignia of a Knight Grand Cross of the Indian Empire (GCIE), which he had received in the 1901 Birthday Honours. He retired from the Army the same year. He died in London in 1904 and is buried at Brompton Cemetery.

Family Palmer married in 1867 Julia Helen Aylmer née Harris (1848–1896) who died in October 1896 and is buried at the Old Christian Cemetery, Abbottabad, Pakistan. They had a daughter: Norah Blanche Aylmer Palmer (1872–?) who married Major Gerard Beechey Howard Rice (1865–?).

He remarried in 1898 Constance Gabrielle Richardson née Shaw (1864–1912), widow of Walter Milton Roberts. They had two daughters: Celia de Courcy Power-Palmer (1902–1973) Frances Gabrielle Power-Palmer (c. 1903 – 1987).