1700–1735) of Fairfield Stoke Coursey, was a British lawyer and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1715 and 1735.
Palmer was the son of Nathaniel Palmer, MP of Fairfield, Stoke Coursey, Somerset, and his wife, Frances Wyndham, daughter of Sir William Wyndham, 1st Baronet.
[2] Palmer was Recorder of Bridgwater from 1720 until 1734 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 1726.
[3] Palmer died of an unknown illness and left directions for his body to be autopsied so that "the calamitous illness which I have been so long afflicted with, and to which all the persons I have applied to have been unable to find the cause or the cure, may after my death be of use to some other unhappy persons who may be in the same condition, and may be helped by the knowledge."
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