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A clergyman who founded the first Anglican church in Guelph, Upper Canada [now Ontario], serving at St. George's Anglican Church from 1832 to 1867. He later became archdeacon of Toronto before retiring to England in 1875.
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Taken from the authority record created by Trinity College Archives (description identifier F2024):
Arthur Palmer, Anglican clergyman, was born near Galway, Ireland, on 4 July 1807 and died at Dublin on 4 May 1881. He married twice, firstly to the daughter of the Reverend George Crawford, LL.D., and they had seven children: William, Arthur, George, Frances, Madeline, Margaret, and Hester. He came to Guelph, Upper Canada, in 1832. Palmer was married a second time, to Catharine Blanchard, on 2 July 1850 in Ingersoll, Upper Canada, and they had three sons and one daughter by this second marriage: Power, Harry, Kate, and the Reverend Thomas L. In 1861 Palmer was a member of the Executive Committee of the Synod of Toronto and mediated a dispute between Bishop Benjamin Cronyn and Bishop John Strachan when the former attacked the teachings of George Whitaker, provost of Trinity College. In 1867 he was appointed archdeacon of Toronto. Palmer returned to England in 1875.