Sir Thomas Palmer, 4th Baronet, of Wingham

Sir Thomas Palmer, 4th Baronet, of Wingham (5 July 1682 – 8 November 1723) was a British landowner and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1708 and 1723.

[2] Palmer was returned as a Whig Member of Parliament (MP) for Kent at the 1708 British general election at the top of the poll.

[4] Palmer was much affected by death of his wife in July 1714 and kept company with his brother-in-law Sir Robert Marsham who supported his campaign at the 1715 British general election at Rochester.

Their surviving children were: Palmer had fathered an illegitimate child, Herbert, on an actress Susanna Cox whom he married in about 1715.

Alexander Pope wrote a scurrilous couplet in reference: To P—l—r's bed no actress comes amiss He courts the whole Personae Dramatis.