Henry Spencer Palmer
1838–1893 (age 55)
Biography
Major General Henry Spencer Palmer (30 April 1838 – 10 February 1893) was a British Royal Engineer who was a member of the elite Royal Engineers, Columbia Detachment that founded British Columbia as the Colony of British Columbia (1858–1866), and who subsequently developed the Port of Yokohama in the Empire of Japan as a foreign advisor to the Meiji government.