Roger William Henry Palmer Vanity Fair 1880-01-31

Lieutenant-General Sir Roger William Henry Palmer, 5th Baronet (1832–1910) was a senior officer in the British Army and the Anglo-Irish Conservative MP for

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. Sir Roger was the last of the

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of Castle Lackin, Co. Mayo, who owned, in addition to some 115,000 acres of land,

Kenure House Kenure House ( ga, Ceann Iubhair – headland of the yew trees). was a large Georgian house and estate in Rush, County Dublin, Ireland. The main house was constructed between 1703 and 1713 by the Duke of Ormond on the grounds of an earlier house b ...

, Rush, County Dublin, Castle Lackin in Mayo, Cefn Park in Wrexham and Glenisland House in Maidenhead. He was the son of Sir William Henry Roger Palmer, Bt and the great-grandson of Sir Roger Palmer of Mayo, who was MP (1768-1783) for Portarlington in the Irish Parliament. His only sibling Ellen married Archie Peel, a nephew of the UK Prime minister. He was educated at

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and joined the Army. He served in the

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with the

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and took part in the

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of 1854. He exchanged to the

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in 1856 (until 1870) and was placed on the retired list in 1881. He was granted the colonelcy of the 20th Hussars from 1891 until his death in 1910. During the Irish Famine, he was known to have evicted many tenants. He was the Anglo-Irish Conservative MP for

from 1857 until 1865. He succeeded his father in 1869 and the same year built Glen Island House on an island in the Thames near Taplow. He was

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in 1888. On his death, Kenure Park passed to Colonel Roderick Henry Fenwick-Palmer. Sir Roger had married Gertrude Millicent, daughter of the Rev. Plumer Rooper, who survived him, dying in 1929.

In popular culture

In a 2014 episode of Who Do You Think You Are? actress

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learns that her Irish great-grandfather, Anthony Clarke, was a tenant at will of Palmer's, living on and cultivating 43 acres of land in

County Mayo County Mayo (; ga, Contae Mhaigh Eo, meaning "Plain of the Taxus baccata, yew trees") is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. In the West Region, Ireland, West of Ireland, in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Conn ...

owned by Sir Roger.Julie Walters
Who Do You Think You Are? S11 E01. Retrieved 20 May 2019.

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