Charles Palmer (6 May 1777 – 17 April 1851) was an English Whig and

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politician who sat in the

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in two periods between 1808 and 1837. Palmer was born at Weston near Bath, the son of

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, who had introduced the use of mail coaches. He was educated at

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and

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and entered the army as cornet in the 10th Dragoons in May 1796. In 1808 he was elected

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(MP) for Bath. Palmer served with his regiment during the Peninsular war and acted as lieutenant-colonel from May 1810 to November 1814.

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appointed him as an aide-de-camp on 8 February 1811, and he held the rank until promoted major-general on 27 May 1825. Palmer held his seat at Bath until 1826. At the 1829 election, there was a double return and in the following by-election he lost. However he was re-elected for Bath in 1830 and held the seat until 1837. Palmer was a large vine-grower at

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in the

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and on the death of his father also became the proprietor of the

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. He died at the age of 73. By the time of his death, he was a bankrupt due to the costs involved in running his vineyards, and had sold the Bath Theatre Royal; he was reduced to begging on the streets of London, 'shunned where he once was courted.' He had married Mary Elizabeth Atkyns, eldest daughter of John Thomas Atkyns of Huntercombe House, Buckinghamshire.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Palmer, Charles 1777 births 1851 deaths People educated at Eton College Alumni of Oriel College, Oxford Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies UK MPs 1807–1812 UK MPs 1812–1818 UK MPs 1818–1820 UK MPs 1820–1826 UK MPs 1830–1831 UK MPs 1832–1835 UK MPs 1835–1837 Politics of Bath, Somerset