Wives Siward in Matilda Sir Petronel Flash in Old City Manners Solyman in the Sultan Jack Rubrick in the Spleen Earl Edwin in the Battle of Hastings Granger in Who's the Dupe? Sneer in the Critic Woodville in The Chapter of Accidents Contrast in the Lord of the Manor Sir Harry Trifle in the Divorce Almoran in The Fair Circassian Prince of Arragon in the piece so named Lord Gayville in the Heiress Don Octavio in the School for Guardians Sir Frederick Fashion in Seduction Marcellus in Julia, or the Italian Lover Random in Ways and Means Demetrius in the Greek Slave Young Manly in the Fugitive Sydenham in the Wheel of Fortune Schedoni in the Italian Monk Tonnage in the Ugly Club In tragedy Palmer was successful in those parts alone in which, as in Stukely, lago, &c., dissimulation is required. In comedy, thanks partly to his fine figure, there are very many parts in which he was held perfect. Some of his best parts are: Young Wilding in the Liar (perhaps his greatest character) Captain Flash Face Dick in the Confederacy Stukely Sir Toby Belch Captain Absolute Young Fashion Prince of Wales in the First Part of King Henry IV Sneer Don John Volpone Sir Frederick Fashion Henry VIII Father Philip in Castle Spectre Villeroy Brush James Boaden declares him "the most unrivalled actor of modern times!" and says "he could approach a lady, bow to her and seat himself gracefully in her presence. We have had dancing-masters in great profusion since his time, but such deportment they have either not known or never taught." His biographer says that his want of a "classical education" was responsible for his defects, which consisted of a want of taste and discrimination, and the resort to physical powers when judgment was at fault. His delivery of William Collins's Ode to the Passions was condemned as the one undertaking beyond his strength, and he is charged with unmeaning and ill-placed accents. Dibdin says that he was vulgar, and Charles Lamb says that "for sock or buskin there was an air of swaggering gentility about Jack Palmer. He was a gentleman with a slight infusion of the footman." In Captain Absolute, Lamb held, "you thought you could trace his promotion to some lady of quality who fancied the handsome fellow in a top-knot, and had bought him a commission." In Dick Amlet he