Sir Charles

My niece Sarah, sent me more information about Sir Charles Palmour today.

"Palmour joined in 1901 the firm of Whinney, Smith & Whinney with which he remained throughout his life, being its senior partner from 1927 until his death in 1948... In 1938 he led the British delegation to the International Congress of Accountants in Berlin at the time of the Munich crisis, and though he behaved with dignity and decorum in public, his colleagues were frightened behind the scenes that he would bring on war a year earlier than happened. It was said of him that he belonged to an age when the British Government was able to send a gunboat to enforce payment of debt or bonds that fell into arrear... He was a forceful and picturesque character, with a manner as blunt as his heart was kind. He was a very prominent freemason, holding the rank of Past Grand Warden of England. He was knighted in 1946."

Sounds a pretty interesting man. Amazingly I knew none of this, he is famous in the family only for "marrying a showgirl" which, although colourful, undersells him a bit I think.

Final photo from Roseberry Topping.