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Sir Geoffrey Palmer, 1st Baronet

Sir Geoffrey Palmer, 1st Baronet, SL (1598 – 5 May 1670) was an English lawyer and politician.

Early life and family

Born in East Carlton, Northamptonshire, he obtained a BA from Christ's College, Cambridge, in 1616 and a MA 1619.[1] He was admitted to the Middle Temple on 14 June 1616 and called to the bar on 23 May 1623. He married Margaret Moore, daughter of Francis Moore, a serjeant-at-law of Berkshire, by whom he had six children:

Career

Palmer was elected to the Long Parliament in 1640, representing Stamford. He was a manager of Strafford's impeachment, giving advice on points of law and the procedural rights of the accused. He joined in the protestation of 3 May 1641 in defence of the Protestant religion, and the act for prolongation of the Parliament on 11 May 1641. After the latter, he joined Hyde and Falkland in supporting the King in his opposition to his new council. Upon the passage of the Grand Remonstrance, he rose to protest against John Hampden's motion to print it, creating a tremendous tumult. The next day, he referred to the majority as "A Rabble of inconsiderable persons, set on by a juggling Junto," and was committed to the Tower for a few weeks. After the passage of the Militia Ordinance, he withdrew from Parliament to become Commissioner of Array for Lincolnshire.

In 1643, he was awarded a DCL by the University of Oxford, and was a member of the royalist Parliament that met there in 1644. Appointed Solicitor General in 1645, he was captured at the fall of Oxford and compounded his estates for £500 in September 1648. He practised law in London during the 1650s. Palmer was committed to the Tower again on 9 June 1655 on suspicion of raising forces against Cromwell, but was released the following year.

Palmer prospered at the Restoration, being made Attorney General on 31 May 1660, and bencher of the Middle Temple the next month. He was knighted on 1 June 1660, created a baronet on 7 June 1660, and serjeant-at-law in October 1660.

During this period, he was active as counsel to the crown and in prosecutions, particularly that of the regicides in 1662. A strong supporter of the royal prerogative, he joined with Hyde, now Earl of Clarendon, who was assembling a collaboration to enact legislation. Geoffrey obtained a seat at Ludgershall for his elder son, Geoffrey, in March 1661 by forcing the sheriff to deliver the election writ to his agent, but Geoffrey died in October; his son Lewis was elected for Higham Ferrers at the same election. He briefly enjoyed an appointment as Chief Justice of Chester from 1661 to 1662, and was recorder of Boston from 1662 until his death on 5 May 1670, in his house at Hampstead Fields, Middlesex. His funeral was attended by a large number of nobles and judges, and he was interred at East Carlton. His monument is in the south transept of St Peter's Church, East Carlton.[2]

His estates included the manors of East and West Carlton, Northamptonshire, which his family had held from the 15th century and the Carlton Curlieu Hall estate, Leicestershire, which he purchased in 1664.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Palmer, Geoffrey (PLMR612G)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. ^ Historic England. "Church of St Peter, East Carlton (1192313)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
  3. ^ Palmer Manuscripts, National Archives: Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Record Office Ref No. DE1110

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First Reading

vincent  •  Link

Palmer, Sir Geoffrey [1598-1670]. Baronet, Attorney General. Palmer was the first Attorney-General after the Restoration.
Book written by him ( 2 copies available) for the connoisseur of common law.
Author: Palmer, Sir Gefrey Les Reports de Sir Gefrey Palmer, Chevalier Title: Les Reports de Sir Gefrey Palmer, Chevalier & Baronet; Attorrney General A SonTres Excellent Majesty le Roy Charles Le Second. Imprime & Publie per l'Original. Ovesque deux Tables, l'un des Nosmes des Cases, l'auter des pincipal Matters conteinus en yce

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Second Reading

Bill  •  Link

Geoffery Palmer, a lawyer of distinction in the reigns of Charles the First and Second, was son of Thomas Palmer, esq. of Carleton, in Northamptonshire, by Catharine Watson, sister to the first lord Rockingham. He was representative for the borough of Stamford, in Lincolnshire, in the long parliament, in which he was a chief manager of the evidence against the earl of Strafford. He afterwards, from principle, adhered to the royal party, with which he was a fellow-sufferer, having been imprisoned in the Tower by Cromwell, who dreaded his abilities, under a pretence of his plotting with the cavaliers. Upon the restoration of Charles II. he was made attorney-general and chief-justice of Chester. It should be remembered to his honour, that he was, in the early part of his life, one of the select friends of Mr. Edward Hyde, afterwards earl of Clarendon. He died May 5, 1670, aged seventy-two years.
---A Biographical History of England. J. Granger, 1779.

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