Charles Palmer

(1777-1851)

NAME AUTHORITIES: NRA: Palmer Charles (1777-1851) Major General DNB: Palmer, Charles (1777-1851), army officer and politician LBT ID: ChPalme1851	B/BAP: 1777-05-06 DIED: 1851-04-17
SOURCES: DNB
The son of postal-reformer John Palmer, he was educated at Eton College and at Oriel College, Oxford; afterwards he was aide-de-camp to the prince regent (1811), major-general (1825), and Whig MP for Bath (1808-26, 1830-37).
REFERENCES TO Charles Palmer: Francis Freeling to William Jerdan, [September 1818] in The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Found 1: ¶ 2 Robert Southey, “Memoir: Westminster School,” 29 August 1824 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Early Life: XVI Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 8: Varieties Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter III. Found 2: ¶ 10 ¶ 12