Sir Robert Harry Inglis PalgraveFRSFSS (11 June 1827 – 25 January 1919) was a British economist.

Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave was born on 11 June 1827. He was the son ofFrancis Palgrave (born Cohen) and his wife Elizabeth Turner, daughter of the bankerDawson Turner. His brothers wereFrancis Turner Palgrave,William Gifford Palgrave and SirReginald Palgrave.

He was educated atCharterhouse School.

In 1843, at the age of 16, he joined the bank of Deacon, Williams and Co. He then in 1845 joined Dawson Turner Turner and Gurney in Yarmouth, the banking firm of his grandfatherDawson Turner. He was also a director of Barclay and Co. and a clerk of theHouse of Commons.

In 1877 he became financial editor ofThe Economist and became editor-in-chief on the death ofWalter Bagehot the same year, a position he held until 1883. He produced the three-volumePalgrave's Dictionary of Political Economy (1894, 1896 and 1899) and also edited the collected historical works of his father, SirFrancis Palgrave. He also editedThe Banking Almanac until his death, and for a time was editor ofThe Bankers' Magazine.^[1]

He was elected aFellow of the Royal Society in June 1882.^[2] That year he wroteTwelve Etchings of the Rev. E. T. Daniell and 24 copies of the book containingDaniell'setchings were made, but not published.^[3] He was knighted in 1909 upon the final completion of his dictionary.

He married in 1859 Sarah Maria Brightwen, daughter of George Brightwen ofSaffron Walden.

• Murray Milgate, 1987[2008]. "Palgrave, Robert Harry Inglis",The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, v. 3, pp. 789–91.

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