A merchant of King's Lynn in Norfolk; in 1817 he traveled in the United States with William Cobbett and published a book about it the following year.

REFERENCES TO John Palmer:

Sydney Smith to Lord Grey, 30 November 1818 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855)