James Palmer (1585–1658)

Sir James Palmer (January 1585 – 15 March 1658) was an English Member of Parliament and Chancellor of the Order of the Garter.

In 1622, he was appointed a Groom of the Bedchamber to King James I and in 1629 a Gentleman Usher of the Privy Chamber to his son King Charles I, to whom he donated the Wilton Diptych.

He was knighted by King Charles I in 1629, and, in 1631, entered Gray's Inn to study law.

[citation needed] He married twice; firstly to Martha Garrard, a daughter of Sir William Garrard of Dorney Court in 1614; and secondly, to Catherine Herbert, a daughter of William Herbert, 1st Baron Powis of Powis Castle, Montgomery, and the widow of Sir Robert Vaughan of Llwydiarth, Montgomery, in 1625.

His issue with Catherine Herbert included Roger Palmer, 1st Earl of Castlemaine, PC (3 September 1634 - 21 July 1700), husband of Barbara Villiers, mistress to Charles II.

Arms of Palmer of Wingham: Or, two bars gules each charged with three trefoils of the first in chief a greyhound currant sable [ 1 ]
Dorney Court, Buckinghamshire, purchased by Palmer in 1624