Frederick Palmer

Sir Frederick Palmer (31 January 1862 – 7 April 1934) was a British civil engineer. Biography Palmer was born in Carmarthenshire, Wales in 1862. He was educated in Neath, and worked as an assistant engineer on the Great Western Railway. He then joined the East Indian Railway Company as an engineer, where he remained for almost eighteen years. He was appointed engineer to the Calcutta Port Commissioners in 1901. Palmer returned to England in 1909, as chief engineer of the Port of London Authority. He undertook several projects at the West India Docks. The first was the construction of several sheds at the Import Dock between 1912 and 1917. Between 1926 and 1930 he built five more sheds at the South Dock and between 1929 and 1930 he constructed four more at the Export Dock.