Ernest Palmer, 1st Baron Palmer

"Patron's Fund". Caricature by Elf published in Vanity Fair in 1909.
(Samuel) Ernest Palmer, 1st Baron Palmer (28 March 1858 - 8 December 1948), known as Sir Ernest Palmer, 1st Baronet, from 1916, was a British business man and patron of music.
Palmer was the eldest son of Samuel Palmer, of Hampstead. He was educated at Malvern College.[1] He was a Director of the family firm of Huntley & Palmers Ltd of Reading, Berkshire, the largest biscuit manufacturer in the world. However, Palmer is mostly known for his services to music. He was Vice-President and a Member of the Council of the Royal College of Music and was elected its first Fellow in 1921[2] He was the founder of the Royal College of Music Patron's Fund, the Berkshire Scholarship and the Ernest Palmer Fund for Opera Study.[3] He was created a Baronet, of Grosvenor Crescent in the City of Westminster in 1916,[4] and on 24 June 1933 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Palmer, of Reading in the County of Berkshire.[5]
Lord Palmer married Amy Christiana, daughter of George Swan Nottage, Lord Mayor of London, in 1881. She died in 1947. Lord Palmer survived her by a year and died in December 1948, aged 90. He was succeeded in his titles by his son Cecil.
References
^ ‘PALMER’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016
^ Biography of Samuel Ernest Palmer, 1st Baron Palmer. Archives at the Royal College of Music. www.aim25.ac.uk.
^ Biography of Samuel Ernest Palmer, 1st Baron Palmer. Archives at the Royal College of Music. www.aim25.ac.uk.
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^ "No. 33954". The London Gazette. 27 June 1933. p. 4296.
Samuel Palmer, 1st Baron Palmer . The Malvern Register 1865-1905, p. 41.- Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [self-published source][better source needed]
- Short biography
Honorary titles | ||
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Preceded by Walter Whigham |
High Sheriff of the County of London 1924–1925 |
Succeeded by Arthur Whitworth |
Peerage of the United Kingdom | ||
New creation |
Baron Palmer 1933–1948 |
Succeeded by Cecil Palmer |
Baronetage of the United Kingdom | ||
New creation |
Baronet (of Reading, Berkshire) 1916–1948 |
Succeeded by Cecil Palmer |
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