Raymond Cecil Palmer, 3rd Baron Palmer OBE (24 June 1916 – 26 June 1990) was a British peer and business man, a member of the House of Lords from 1950 until his death.
The son of Ernest Cecil Nottage Palmer, 2nd Baron Palmer and his wife Marguerite Osborne, Palmer was educated at Harrow School and University College, Oxford. He was commissioned as a Lieutenant into the Grenadier Guards, but retired, injured.[1]
On 6 June 1950, Palmer succeeded his father as Baron Palmer in the peerage of the United Kingdom, giving him a seat in the House of Lords. He also became the third Palmer baronet.[1]
He became chairman of Huntley & Palmers and of Huntley, Boorne & Stevens, a director of Associated Biscuit Manufacturers, and president of the Thames Valley Trustee Savings Bank.[1]
On 30 January 1941, Palmer married Victoria Ellen Stevens, daughter of Captain Joseph Arthur Ronald Weston Stevens, and they had three daughters:[1]
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