Military Rank:

Major

First Name:

Giles

Last Name:

Palmer

Memorial Type:

Memorial - Funerary

Does the monument still exist?

Yes

Installation Date:

After 1665

Inscription:

Egidius Palmer de Compton Armiger filius 8us Johanis Palmer et Eleanorae Rouse obit 16 die Octobris Ano 1665. Anno Aetatis 50 incvivs memoriam maestissima uxor Eliz filia Henrici Iones de Chestleton in Com Oxon armiger hoc ultimu amoris monumetus posuit

Reliquit supstites Johane unicum filium très filias viz, Elizaberta, Annael Maria. Postqua hic militia complevisset (in rebelles Scotos vexillarius Anno 1638 in Rebelles Hybernos dux Anno 1642. In rebelees Anglos dux major anno 1645). Pergradus militares summu in patria honore obtinut.

Giles Palmer of Compton, Esquire—the eighth son of John Palmer and Eleanor Rouse—died on the 16th of October, 1665, in the 50th year of his age. In his memory, his deeply sorrowing wife Elizabeth—daughter of Henry Jones of Chastleton in the County of Oxford, Esquire—erected this final monument of love.

He left behind a surviving son, John, and three daughters: Elizabeth, Anne, and Mary. Having completed his military service (serving as a standard-bearer against the rebellious Scots in 1638, as a captain against the rebellious Irish in 1642, and as a major against the rebellious English in 1645), he attained high military rank and the greatest honor in his country.

Allegiance:

Royalist

Memorial Notes:

Palmer was major of the regiment of foot under Colonel Matthew Appleyard. He served as an ensign in the army that fought the Scots in 1640 in Sir Charles Vavasour's regiment (See P.R Newman, Royalist Officers in England and Wales 1642-1660 (1981), p284 and Edward Peacock, The Army Lists of the Roundheads and Cavaliers (1874), p.83).