The inspiration for the surname came from a boy called Palmer whom Caine knew at school.

Caine described Palmer as: " the most boring boy I'd ever met ".

', and the most boring boy in our school was called: ' Palmer ', ' Tommy Palmer '.

Although Roger Palmer insisted on treating the boy as his and ensured that he was christened as a Roman Catholic, Barbara snatched away the young boy and arranged for him to be re-christened in the Church of England.

Kreizler is surrounded by those he has rescued, including his black servant, Cyrus Montrose, his housekeeper, Mary Palmer, and a boy named Stevie " Stevepipe " Taggert.

But after Tom McGuire left Fay to raise the boy alone, Fay allowed Charles and Gertie Palmer to adopt the boy.

After studying anatomy in the office of a physician, Dr. James H. Armsby, he spent nine years as the studio boy of the sculptor, E. D. Palmer.

As a young boy, Tarrou attended one day of a criminal proceeding in which a man was on trial for his life.

Nicknamed " Kim " after the young boy in Rudyard Kipling's novel Kim, Philby attended Aldro preparatory school.

He attended the Cass Technical High School in Detroit, but he quit school and landed a job as an office boy for the Cadillac Motor Company, where he used rollerskates to make his rounds more efficiently.

A number of characters and incidents from the novel were omitted-notably David's time at Salem House boarding school, although one character he met at Salem House ( Steerforth ) was retained for the film as a head boy at the school David attended after his aunt Betsey Trotwood gained custody of him.

For instance, in the film David never attends Salem House boarding school, and so the characters he met there do not appear, with the exception of Steerforth, who instead made his appearance as head boy of David's school he attended after going to live with Betsey Trotwood.

As a young boy, Walter attended a Jewish non-profit sleepaway camp, Tranquillity Camp, where he first began acting in the shows the camp would stage on Saturday nights.

He attended the notable public school, Tonbridge School in Kent, as a day boy.

" The sailor Nagorny, who attended to Alexei Nikolaevitch, passed my window carrying the sick boy in his arms, behind him came the Grand Duchesses loaded with valises and small personal belongings.

Pierre Gilliard recalled his last sight of the children at Yekaterinburg: " The sailor Nagorny, who attended to Alexei Nikolaevitch, passed my window carrying the sick boy in his arms, behind him came the Grand Duchesses loaded with valises and small personal belongings.

As a boy he attended a Nonconformist church ( Welsh usage: chapel ) at Cefnarthen.

Serving as an altar boy when young, he attended a seminary for a year, intending to become a priest.

As a boy, Harrison attended St Paul's School and the Westminster School of Alexander Nowell.

There is a common legend that in 1713 a cock boy named Humphrey Potter, whose duty it was to open and shut the valves of an engine he attended, made the engine self-acting by causing the beam itself to open and close the valves by suitable cords and catches ( known as the " potter cord "); however the plug tree device ( the first form of valve gear ) was very likely established practice before 1715 and is clearly depicted in the earliest known images of Newcomen engines by Henry Beighton 1717 ( believed by Hulse to depict the 1714 Griff colliery engine ) and by Thomas Barney ( 1719 ) ( depicting the 1712 Dudley Castle engine ).

Ambrose attended Liberty Seminary as a young boy, but his education was interrupted when his mother died in 1841 ; he was apprenticed to a local tailor, eventually becoming a partner in the business.

As a young boy, he attended a Marist Brothers school.

As a boy, Musa attended Saint Andrew's Primary School in San Ignacio.

He attended an indoor melee with his father and acted in a mummery with his father, and the likes of the much older Charles Brandon and Nicholas Carew, who would later prove to be such enemies of the little boy ( Brandon sat on the jury which tried him and Carew helped coach Jane Seymour on how best to win the king's heart ).

As a young boy, William Gull attended a local day school with his elder sisters.

Women and girls take the initiative in inviting the man or boy of their choice out on a date — almost unheard of before 1937 — typically to a dance attended by other bachelors and their assertive dates.

As a young boy, Bill ( as he was commonly called ) attended Roman Catholic school and sang with the St. Paul's Church choir.

The Belaney boy attended Hastings Grammar School, where he excelled in subjects such as English, French and Chemistry.

As a boy he attended the Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven, Connecticut.

As a boy, he played baseball and ice hockey at Montreal's Polyvalente Édouard-Montpetit High School, the same high school that Russell Martin attended.

As a boy, Grinnell had avidly read Ornithological Biography, a seminal work by the great bird painter John James Audubon ; he also attended a school for boys conducted by Lucy Audubon.

As a boy, Wharton attended two Quaker boarding schools in the towns outside of Philadelphia and also several private schools in the city.

Jones was educated at the Royal Grammar School in Guildford, where he was head boy in the 1960-61 academic year.

; Claude Daigle: The little boy whom Rhoda drowned the day of the Fern Grammar School picnic.

His lifelong friend, scholar and social reformer Charles Eliot Norton, described Child's father, a sailmaker, as " one of that class of intelligent and independent mechanics skilled craftsmen, which has had a large share of developing the character of our democratic community, as of old the same class had in Athens or in Florence .” The family was poor, but thanks to the city of Boston's system of free public schools, the boy was educated at the Boston's Grammar and English High Schools.

It is most commonly believed to be derived from Wessex Fives, a game played by Thomas Arnold, famous Headmaster of Rugby School, who had played Wessex Fives when a boy at Lord Weymouth's Grammar, now Warminster School.

As a boy, Belaney was known for pranks, such as using his Grammar School chemistry to make small bombs.

His education at Alleyn's School and the Glyn Grammar School led him to start his career performing as a boy soprano in several works by the composer Benjamin Britten, who formed a close friendship with him at this time.

Curry, the son of a teacher, was educated at the Ripon Grammar School where he was head boy in 1962, and then at Corpus Christi College, Oxford where he received a BA degree in Modern History in 1966.

Taylor attended Moseley Grammar School in Birmingham where he was head boy, then Keele University where he studied English Literature and Law, followed by the Inns of Court School of Law in London.

During the dissolution of the grammar schools under Harold Wilson's watch, ( an old boy of the nearby Royds Hall Grammar School ), he infamously said that grammar schools would be dismantled over his dead body.

He was educated at Andover Grammar School and was fully expecting to become a farmer until a downturn in agriculture saw him leave school in 1935 at just 15 years of age to join the Royal Navy as a boy seaman.

The boy was educated at Bristol Grammar School and showed ability, but he was sent early to work as an office boy.

As a boy Allastair Malcolm Cluny McReady-Diarmid went to Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School for Boys, Barnet, Hertfordshire.

As a young boy his promising athletic career in track and field seemed to end on May 18, 1978 during his lunch hour at Ashton-in-Makerfield Grammar School ( now The Byrchall High School ), Ian was involved in an accident that resulted in the loss of his right leg above the knee.

Laine was educated at Yardley Grammar School in Birmingham, and took up the guitar as a boy under the influence of Gypsy jazz ( jazz manouche ) legend Django Reinhardt ; he had his first solo performance as a musician at the age of twelve and began his career as a professional musician fronting Denny Laine & The Diplomats, which also included future Move and Electric Light Orchestra drummer Bev Bevan.

As a boy he played cricket with his elder brother David Tyson, who served in Australia during the war and at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Middleton, where he practiced his run up on the balcony.