Sir John Palmer, 5th Baronet

Sir John Palmer, 5th Baronet (1735– 11 February 1817) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1765 to 1780.

He was educated at Leicester and was admitted at Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1752.

[1] In 1776/1778 he commissioned John Johnson, a Leicester architect, to design a new hall at East Carlton, Northamptonshire on the foundations of a previous hall.

Palmer was elected Member of Parliament for Leicestershire in a by-election on 26 December 1765.

[1] He was succeeded in turn by his sons Sir Thomas Palmer, 6th Baronet and Sir John Henry Palmer, 7th Baronet.