Adrian Bailie Nottage Palmer, 4th Baron Palmer (8 October 1951 – 10 July 2023), was a British aristocrat and landowner in Scotland. Lord Palmer succeeded his uncle in the peerage in 1990, and was one of the original ninety hereditary peers elected to remain in the

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after the passing of the

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; he sat as a

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until his death.

Early life

Adrian Palmer was the son of Colonel the Hon. Sir Gordon Palmer, a younger son of Cecil Palmer, 2nd Baron Palmer, by his marriage to Lorna Eveline Hope Bailie.''

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'', volume 3, 2003, p. 3051. Palmer was educated at Eton and the

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, where he received a

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in Farming Practice.

Career

Palmer was an apprentice at his family's biscuit factory, Huntley and Palmers Ltd, in

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, and then worked as sales manager in Belgium and Luxembourg, between 1974 and 1977. From 1977 to 1986 he was the Scottish representative to the

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(ELO). He was member of the Executive Council of the

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from 1981 to 1999, and of the council of the Scottish Landowners' Federation from 1986 to 1992. Between 1989 and 2005, he was also secretary of the Royal Caledonian Hunt. For the Historic Houses Association for Scotland, The Lord Palmer was vice-chairman in 1993 and 1994, and chairman between 1994 and 1999. Palmer was also President of the Palm Tree Silk Company in

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, of the British Association of Biofuels and Oils (BABFO), and of the transport division of the Renewable Energy Authority. He was a member of the National Farmers Union of Scotland and between 1994 and 2023 he was chairman of the Country Sports Defence Trust. Between 1990 and 1996, he was a member of the

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Marriages and children

On 7 May 1977, at Haileybury,

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, Palmer married firstly Cornelia Dorothy Katharine Wadham, daughter of R. N. Wadham, of

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. They were divorced in 2004. Together they had three children; two sons and a daughter: * Hugo Bailie Rohan Palmer, 5th Baron Palmer (born 5 December 1980) * Hon. Edwina Laura Marguerite Palmer (born 20 February 1982) * Hon. George Gordon Nottage Palmer (born 17 November 1985) Palmer married secondly in 2006 Loraine McMurrey, a

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heiress, and divorced in 2013.

Personal life and death

Lord Palmer lived at

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, Duns, Berwickshire. He died from a stroke on 10 July 2023, at the age of 71.

Arms

Notes

References

External links

Lord Palmer - UK Parliament
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