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Basil Cowley Morton Palmer was born 9 March 1908 in Teignmouth, the son of Dr Frederick W. Morton, a Jesuan, and was the cousin of Jesuan Michael Sydney Morton Palmer (1935).
He attended Charterhouse between 1922 - 1926, where he played on the football and cricket teams.
He matriculated at Jesus College in 1926 and was a member of the soccer and cricket teams, and completed his Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Medicine between 1926 - 1936, receiving a third class degree in Psychology in 1929, and also completed a Licentiate in Medicine and Surgery of the Society of Apothecaries, at Guy's Hospital, in the opthalmology department.
He was married to Betty.
During the Second World War, he was a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps, and was wounded in action in Anzio, Italy in Spring 1944.
He went on to become a general medical practioner in Copthorne, Sussex, and also worked in the opthalmic department in Charing Cross Hospital.
He died in 1995.