He remained in the service to the end of 1871, when he retired by
the sale of his commission. At the general election of 1880, Sir William
Palliser was returned as a Conservative at the head of the poll for
Taunton. In the House of Commons Sir William gave his chief attention
to the scientific matters on which his authority was so generally
recognized. Under the many disappointments and "unkind cuts," which
fall to the lot of the most successful inventors, Sir William Palliser
displayed qualities that won hearty admiration. The confidence with
which he left his last well-known experiment to be carried out in his
own absence almost under the directions of those whose professional
opinions were adverse to his own, may be called chivalrous. His
liberality and kindness of Colonel of the second Middlesex Artillery
Volunteers had gained him the affection of the entire corps; in short,
where it might naturally be expected that he should win respect, he won
the love of those who were thrown with him.--_The Engineer_.
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