Sir Charles Thomas Hudson Palmer, 2nd Baronet (20 May 1771 – 30 April 1827) was an English landowner. His

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was in

Wanlip Hall Wanlip Hall was a large house in Wanlip near the English city of Leicester. It was the ancestral home of the Palmer family. The building was demolished before the Second World War. History There was a hall in Wanlip that came into the possession ...

in Leicestershire.

Life

Charles Thomas Hudson was born on 20 May 1771 to

Sir Charles Hudson, 1st Baronet Sir Charles Grave Hudson, 1st Baronet (3 April 1730 – 24 October 1813) married well and became the owner of Wanlip Hall in Leicestershire. He was a director of the South Sea Company and became a High Sheriff of Leicestershire in 1783. He beca ...

and his wife Catherine Palmer. Sir William Pepperrell and his Family

In 1805 Hudson, as he still was then, married Harriet Pepperell (born on 17 December 1773), one of the three daughters of the Anglo-American Sir

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and Elizabeth the daughter of Isaac Royall. A portrait of William Pepperell and his three daughters and short-lived son was painted by

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in 1778.

Hudson's marriage was important as it linked his family not only to the Pepperell inheritance, but also connected him to the American Royalls. The latter had become rich due to their

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n slave plantations. Both Isaac Royall and Hudson's father had interest in slave plantations in Surinam. In 1803 Charles and Harriett had Louisa and in 1806 came Mary Ann. A third daughter, Caroline Harriet, was born in 1809, followed by the heir, George Joseph, in 1811. His final two children were Charles Axdale and William Henry. Caroline Harriett Abraham

He succeeded to the title in 1813. Under the terms of his maternal grandfather's will, he changed his name to Palmer and what had been th Hudson baronetcy became the Palmer baronetcy of Wanlip Hall. He successfully challenged the will that the first baronet had written shortly before his death. The

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considered that the first baronet's request that his executors pass on his wealth (2,500 pounds) to the children that were surviving 28 years after his death was too vague and remote. His third daughter was notable in the

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. She married Rev. Charles Abraham, who with her able assistance became

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; their only child, Charles Abraham, and his son

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, both became bishops. It is under her married name, Caroline Harriet Abraham that she became known as an artist and defender of Maori rights. His heir, George, married Emily Elizabeth Holford; their daughter Emily Frances married

James Tomkinson James Tomkinson (1840 – 10 April 1910) was an English landowner and Liberal politician. Life Born in 1840, Tomkinson lived at Willington Hall, Chester. He was the son of Waterloo veteran Lieutenant-Colonel William Tomkinson and Susan, da ...

, landowner and Liberal politician. Through this line are descended the Palmer-Tomkinson family, who still own much of the land in the area around Wanlip. Palmer died in

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in 1827.Obituary
The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, Volume 97, Part 1

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Palmer, Charles Thomas 1771 births 1827 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of Great Britain People from Wanlip