[2] His father William Jocelyn Palmer was rector of Mixbury in Oxfordshire.
[3][4][5] At Oxford, he met William Stubbs, who was his future bishop when he became archdeacon, at the Hermes debating society, and they became lifelong friends.
[10] He set off on travel for his [health] during the winter of 1849/50 with his brother William in the Levant, meeting Alexandros Mavrokordatos in Athens and visiting Smyrna to see Yevfimy Putyatin.
[12] The trip ended back in England in August 1850, with Edwin Palmer in better health.
[13] In 1881 Palmer edited The Greek Testament With the Readings Adopted by the Revisers of the Authorised Version ,[14] producing a Greek New Testament text representing the basis of the Revised Version.