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Palmes is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Sir Brian Palmes, English landowner and politician *Sir Guy Palmes, English politician * Brian Palmes MP *Lieutenant General Francis Palmes Lieutenant-General Francis Palmes MP (died 1719) was a noted favourite general of the Duke of Marlborough. He served in Lord Cavendish's Regiment of Horse and Hugh Wyndham's Regiment of Carabiniers, eventually rising to become lieutenant-col ... * Major Billie Palmes * Captain Laurence Palmes {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Palmes
Sir Bryan Palmes (1600–1654) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England, House of Commons in 1626 and 1640. He fought on the Cavaliers, Royalist side in the English Civil War. Palmes was the son of Guy Palmes of Ashwell, Rutland, and his wife Ann Stafford, daughter of Sir Edward Stafford. He was educated at Wadham College, Oxford after matriculating at Trinity College, Oxford in 1615. In 1626 was elected Member of Parliament for Stamford (UK Parliament constituency), Stamford. In April 1640, he was elected Member of Parliament for Aldborough (UK Parliament constituency), Aldborough in the Short Parliament. Palmes was knighted on 21 April 1642. In the Civil War, he raised a regiment for King Charles I. He later compounded for his estate. Palmes married Mary Tevery, daughter of Gervase Tevery, of Stapleford, They had 6 sons (4 of whom predeased him) and 4 daughters. Palmes's marriage linked him to his father's friend Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Guy Palmes
Sir Guy Palmes (1580–1653) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1614 and 1643. Early life Palmes was the son of Francis Palmes of Lindley, now part of Huddersfield, and at Ashwell, Rutland and married Anne, the daughter of Sir Edward Stafford. He was a member of the Palmes family. Political positions Palmes had earlier been appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Rutland by King James I and was a Justice of the Peace for Yorkshire. Palmes represented Rutland seven times in Parliament from 1614 until disabled from sitting in September 1643. He was High Sheriff of Yorkshire for 1622. Palmes opposed the initiatives of King Charles I. He apparently later had a change of heart and became ardently Royalist A royalist supports a particular monarch as head of state for a particular kingdom, or of a particular dynastic claim. In the abstract, this position is royalism. It is distinct from monarchism, which advocates ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Palmes (died 1519)
Brian Palmes (before 1467–1519) was an English landowner, justice of the assize and politician who sat in the House of Commons. Early life Palmes was the son eldest son and heir of William Palmes of Naburn and Eleanor, daughter of William Heslerton of Heslerton. He was a member of the Palmes family, an ancient upper-gentry family that had been seated at Naburn Hall since the 13th century. In about 1480 he and his younger brother Guy entered the Middle Temple, where both were to do well. In 1496 he became recorder of York in succession to Sir William Fairfax, and in the following year was made a Freeman; he proved more diligent in attending the York council than some recorders, twice supervising elections when a mayor died in office. It was a measure of the city’s satisfaction that in 1504 it appointed his brother, who was already a sergeant, to be "of counsel" at 20s. a year. His and his first wife’s membership of the city’s Corpus Christi guild, and his own of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lieutenant General Francis Palmes
Lieutenant-General Francis Palmes MP (died 1719) was a noted favourite general of the Duke of Marlborough. He served in Lord Cavendish's Regiment of Horse and Hugh Wyndham's Regiment of Carabiniers, eventually rising to become lieutenant-colonel of the latter regiment. He fought at the Battle of Blenheim in command of a brigade. Often employed as a diplomatic envoy as well as a soldier, Palmes died at Dresden in 1719. Early life Palmes was the second son of Francis Palmes of Carcraig and Elizabeth Taylor, daughter of Thomas Taylor of Ballyport, County Limerick. The Palmes family of Carcraig was a cadet branch of the Palmes family of Naburn.''Yorkshire Life'', April - June 1952 Military career Palmes began a lengthy military career shortly after the Revolution, being granted a captain's commission in Lord Cavendish's Regiment of Horse on 31 December 1688.Dalton, ''The Blenheim Roll'', p. 4. He served in Ireland through the 1690s, becoming lieutenant-colonel of Hugh Wy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billie Palmes
Major Edward William Eustace Palmes (23 August 1884 – 31 March 1961) was an English international polo player.The Times 4/02/1961, page 12 Early life Palmes came from an aristocratic family of Yorkshire. He was the son of Major Guy St. Maur Palmes, Justice of the Peace of Lingcroft and Naburn, York and Georgina Rosabelle Lloyd, the daughter of Edward Lloyd. He was educated at Wellington College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was then commissioned into the 10th Royal Hussars. Polo He was a member of the polo team that won the inter-regimental polo tournament in India in six consecutive years (1907–12). In 1913 he was a member of the Quidnuncs team, which won the Champion, Whitney, and Coronation Cups. He was a 9 handicap player and reached the final of the Khadir Cup in 1910. He played for Count J de Madre's Tiger team. Military Palmes served between 1914 and 1918 in World War I with the 10th Royal Hussars and was wounded twice. He was awarded the Military C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
