Gordon Palmer
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Colonel Sir Gordon William Nottage Palmer KCVO OBE TD (18 July 1918 – 3 July 1989) was Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire from 1978 to 1989, High Sheriff of Berkshire, 1965, and Chairman of Huntley and Palmer Foods, Reading, Berkshire.
He was the younger son of Cecil Palmer, 2nd Baron Palmer, by his American wife Marguerite McKinley, daughter of William McKinley Osborne, a United States Army general. He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford.[1]
Military service
[edit]He was commissioned into the Royal Artillery and by the end of the Second World War he was a lieutenant-colonel. After the war he served in the Territorial Army and was promoted to colonel in 1956.
Family
[edit]Colonel Palmer married, 6 May 1950, in Duns, Scottish Borders, Lorna Eveline Hope, daughter of Charles William Hugh Bailie, of Manderston, Berwickshire, by which marriage the Palmer family came into possession of Manderston. At the time of his marriage he was resident at 'Fernhurst' at Pinkneys Green in Berkshire. Later, he lived at Foudry House in Stratfield Mortimer.
They had two sons:
- Adrian Palmer, 4th Baron Palmer (1951–2023)
- Hon. Mark Palmer (b. 1954)
References
[edit]- ^ ‘PALMER, Col Hon. Sir Gordon William Nottage’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016.
- 1918 births
- 1989 deaths
- People educated at Eton College
- Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford
- Lord-lieutenants of Berkshire
- High Sheriffs of Berkshire
- Knights Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
- Officers of the Order of the British Empire
- Palmer family
- Royal Artillery officers
- People from Maidenhead
- People from West Berkshire District
- Younger sons of barons
- British Army personnel of World War II
- Military personnel from Berkshire
- British business biography, 20th-century birth stubs