Person Palmer; Thomas (? 1685 - 1735) Palmer Thomas ? 1685 - 1735 Male Fairfield, Somerset 06 or 16 March 1735

Fairfield, Stoke Courcy, near Bridgwater, Somerset

Education: New College, Oxford (matriculated 1700); Middle Temple (admitted 1702) Career: MP for Bridgewater (1715-1727, 1731-death); Recorder of Bridgwater (1720- 1734); was one of the managers of the impeachment of Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield (FRS 1712) (1725); 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' Son of Nathaniel Palmer, MP, of Fairfield and Stogursey, Somerset, and his wife, Frances, daughter of Sir William Wyndham, Bart MP Fellow 12/05/1726 John Hadley Sources: Bulloch's Roll; Foster; MT; Sedgwick References: Gentleman's Magazine 1735, p163 (obituary) London Magazine 1735, p160 (obituary) Notes: Foster gives date of death as 06 March 1735 International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 ? 1685 - 16 Mar 1735 NA444 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes ddfc9c4f-543f-417b-a35c-45f389a24301