Name Thomas Palmer | Role Politician | |
Thomas Palmer, MP FRS (fl. 1700–1735), was a British politician. He was twice the Member of Parliament for Bridgewater.
He was the son of Nathaniel Palmer, MP, of Fairfield and Stogursey, Somerset, and his wife, Frances, daughter of Sir William Wyndham. He was educated at New College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1700 and then entered the Middle Temple in 1702.
He was elected MP for Bridgewater, Somerset from 1715 until 1727 and again from 1731 until his death in 1735. He was Recorder of Bridgwater from 1720 until 1734.
He was involved in the impeachment of Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 1726.
He 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."