Sir Roger Palmer, 1st Baronet (1729 – 25 January 1790) was an

Anglo-Irish Anglo-Irish people () denotes an ethnic, social and religious grouping who are mostly the descendants and successors of the English Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland. They mostly belong to the Anglican Church of Ireland, which was the State rel ...

politician. Palmer was elected as a Member of Parliament for Jamestown in the

Irish House of Commons The Irish House of Commons was the lower house of the Parliament of Ireland that existed from 1297 until the end of 1800. The upper house was the Irish House of Lords, House of Lords. The membership of the House of Commons was directly elected, ...

in 1761. In 1768 he was returned for the Portarlington (Parliament of Ireland constituency), Portarlington constituency, sitting for that seat until 1783. On 29 May 1777 he was created a baronet, of Castle Lackin in the Baronetage of Ireland.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Palmer, Roger, 1st Baronet 1729 births 1790 deaths 18th-century Anglo-Irish people Palmer baronets, 301 Irish MPs 1761–1768 Irish MPs 1769–1776 Irish MPs 1776–1783 Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for Queen's County constituencies Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Leitrim constituencies