Sir Guy Palmes (1580–1653) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the
House of Commons
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at various times between 1614 and 1643.
Early life
Palmes was the son of
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 ...
of
Lindley, now part of
Huddersfield
Huddersfield is a market town in the Kirklees district in West Yorkshire, England. It is the administrative centre and largest settlement in the Kirklees district. The town is in the foothills of the Pennines. The River Holme's confluence into ...
, 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
James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until hi ...
and was a
Justice of the Peace for
Yorkshire
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. Palmes represented
Rutland seven times in Parliament from 1614 until disabled from sitting in September 1643. He was
High Sheriff of Yorkshire
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for 1622.
Palmes opposed the initiatives of
King Charles I. He apparently later had a change of heart and became ardently
Royalist
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. He would be fined heavily by Parliament and eventually pardoned, but only after being forced to sell many of his estates to pay his fines.
A will dated 31 October 1519 of his ancestor Bryan Palmes,
Sergeant-at-Law still exists, showing he had lands in Naburn, Riccall, Escrick, South Duffield, Elvington, Barthorpe, Sutton, Holtby, Berrythorpe and Gate Fulford.
[Old Naburn by W.M. Baines p46]
Personal life
Palmes' daughter Anne was the second wife of
Robert Sutton, 1st Baron Lexinton of Aram, who was elevated to the peerage in 1645 for his services to the Royalist cause.
Palmes was named a beneficiary and supervisor to the 1613 will of his cousin John Lindley of
Lindley. The other supervisor of Lindley's will was
Thomas Levett, married to Lindley's only daughter Margaret.
References
*Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Simon Healy, ''Palmes, Sir Guy (1580–1653)'', first published September 2004, 1550 words
External links
Sir Guy Palmes, The Parliament of 1626Sir Guy Palmes, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain, John Burke, 1835Appointment of Palmes in Rutland, Record Office Catalog, Leicestershire County CouncilParliament of 1640, British History OnlineParliament of 1642, British History OnlineGuy Palmes, An Impartial Examination of the Third Volume of Mr. Daniel Neal's History of the Puritans, Zachary Grey, 1737Guy Palmes Ashland, Rutland, British History OnlineParliamentary Pardon of Guy Palmes, British History OnlinePalmes-Lindley family memorial, Otley, Yorkshire, Flickr.comPalmes-Lindley family memorial, Otley, Yorkshire, Flickr.comPalmes-Lindley family memorial, Otley, Yorkshire, Flickr.com
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1580 births
1653 deaths
People from Huddersfield
High Sheriffs of Rutland
High Sheriffs of Yorkshire
English MPs 1614
English MPs 1621–1622
English MPs 1624–1625
English MPs 1625
English MPs 1628–1629
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