Sir John Palmer, 5th Baronet (1735– 11 February 1817) was a British politician who sat in the

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from 1765 to 1780. East Carlton Hall Northamptonshire

Palmer was the only surviving son of Sir Thomas Palmer, 4th Baronet, of Carlton and was baptised on 20 February 1735. He was educated at Leicester and was admitted at

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in 1752. He succeeded his father in the

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on 14 June 1765. In 1776/1778 he commissioned John Johnson, a Leicester architect, to design a new hall at

East Carlton East Carlton is a village and civil parish in the county of Northamptonshire, on the southern ridge overlooking the Welland valley to the north and covers on a long strip of land.

, Northamptonshire on the foundations of a previous hall. Palmer was elected Member of Parliament for

Leicestershire Leicestershire ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. It is bordered by Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire to the north, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire to the south-east, Warw ...

in a by-election on 26 December 1765. He was returned again in

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and

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. He did not stand in

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. Palmer married Charlotte Gough, daughter of

Sir Henry Gough, 1st Baronet Sir Henry Gough, 1st Baronet (1709–1774), also known as Sir Harry Gough, of Edgbaston Hall, Warwickshire, was a British merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1732 to 1741. Early life Gough was the son of Sir Richard Go ...

, on 23 July 1768 and had 5 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 11 February 1817 and was succeeded in turn by his sons Sir Thomas Palmer, 6th Baronet, and Sir John Henry Palmer, 7th Baronet.

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