Leonard Robert Palmer

Who is Leonard Robert Palmer?

Leonard Robert Palmer was author and professor of Comparative Philology at the University of Oxford from 1952 to 1971.

Palmer was Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford. He was elected Secretary and then President of the British Philological Society. He was also a corresponding member of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut. In 1981, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Innsbruck. During World War II, Palmer worked at the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, at the so-called Hut 4. Their work was the translation, interpretation and distribution of enemy messages.