Ernest Clephan Palmer (1883 – 4 July 1954) was a British author, journalist and psychical researcher.

For twenty-three years Palmer was a member of the Parliamentary Press Gallery and its Chairman in 1951.

[2] Palmer was Parliamentary Correspondent for the News Chronicle and with the support of his friend Arthur Conan Doyle was involved in solving the Oscar Slater case by securing Slater's release twenty years after his conviction.

[5] In his book The Riddle of Spiritualism published in 1927, Palmer came to the conclusion that most mediumship and phenomena observed in the séance is the result of fraud, however, he believed telepathy to explain some cases of mental mediumship.

He wrote there is no scientific evidence for the spirit hypothesis in mediumship but the question of survival should still be kept open.