Sir Frederick Palmer KCMG CIE (31 January 1862 – 7 April 1934)[1] was a British civil engineer.

[3] He was educated in Neath, and worked as an assistant engineer on the Great Western Railway.

[4] He then joined the East Indian Railway Company as an engineer, where he remained for almost eighteen years.

[4] His son, John Palmer, made a bequest of an endowment fund to the ICE in 1960 to mark the centenary of his father's birth.

The fund provides for a monetary prize and certificate for a paper submitted to the ICE on the subject of the economic and financial aspects of civil engineering.