George Palmer (lieutenant colonel)

[6][7] Palmer and fellow Commissioner Jacob Barrow Montefiore were responsible for fulfilling all of the agents' and other requirements for the "First Fleet of South Australia" in 1836, under the command of Colonel Light.

This reform, leading to reduced deaths at sea, was adopted for all British emigrant ships in 1839.

[8] He became a friend of William Light,[8] Surveyor-General of South Australia and planner of the city of Adelaide, and years later, he was responsible for sending a silver bowl to the Mayor and Corporation of the City of Adelaide, as a gift from four friends of Light: Montefiore, Raikes Currie and Alexander Lang Elder, and himself.

[10][11][9] When a wave of unrest swept Britain in the late 1830s, Lt-Col Palmer, whose primary purpose with the Essex Yeomanry at that time was to protect the Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mills and the Royal Small Arms Factory at Enfield Lock, had to bear the costs of the unit himself from 1838 to 1843.

[3] There is a sketch of Palmer as Verderer of Epping Forest dated 1871, held in the Print Collection of the New York Public Library.