Charles Palmer (6 May 1777 – 17 April 1851) was an English Whig and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1808 and 1837.
In 1808 he was elected member of parliament (MP) for Bath.
Palmer served with his regiment during the Peninsular war and acted as lieutenant-colonel from May 1810 to November 1814.
The Prince Regent appointed him as an aide-de-camp on 8 February 1811, and he held the rank until promoted major-general on 27 May 1825.
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.