Adrian Palmer, 4th Baron Palmer

Adrian Palmer, 4th Baron Palmer

Adrian Bailie Nottage Palmer, 4th Baron Palmer, & 4th Baronet (cr 1916), (born 8 October 1951) is a Liberal peer and landowner in Scotland [ Wightman, Andrew, "Who Owns Scotland", Edinburgh, 1996, p58, ISBN 0-86241-585-3] . He succeeded his uncle in the 1933 peerage in 1990, and is now one of the ninety hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999.

Family

The son of Colonel the Hon. Sir Gordon Palmer, younger son of the 2nd Baron Palmer and Lorna Eveline Hope née Bailie. He was educated at Eton College, Berkshire, and at the University of Edinburgh, where he received a Certificate in Farming Practice in 1979.

Career

Adrian Palmer was an apprentice at his family's famous biscuit factory, Huntley and Palmers Ltd, at Reading, Berkshire, and then worked as sales manager in Belgium and Luxembourg, between 1974 and 1977.

From 1977 to 1986 he was the Scottish representative to the European Landowners' Organisation (ELO). He was member of the Executive Council of the Historic Houses Association from 1981 to 1999, and of the council of the Scottish Landowners' Federation from 1986 to 1992. Between 1989 and 2005, he was also secretary of the Royal Caledonian Hunt. For the Historic Houses Association for Scotland, The Lord Palmer was vice-chairman in 1993 and 1994, and chairman between 1994 and 1999.

The Lord Palmer was also President of Palm Tree Silk Co in St Lucia, of the British Association of Biofuels and Oils (BABFO), and of the transport division of the Renewable Energy Authority. He is a member of the National Farmers Union of Scotland and since 1994 chairman of the Country Sports Defence Trust. Between 1990 and 1996, he was a member of the Royal Company of Archers.

Lord Palmer lives at Manderston, Duns, Berwickshire.

Marriages

On May 7, 1977, at Haileybury, Hertfordshire, he married (1) Cornelia Dorothy Katharine, daughter of R.N.Wadham, DFC, of Newmarket, by whom he has two sons and a daughter. They were divorced in 2004. His Lordship married again (2) 2006, Loraine McMurrey.

His eldest son and heir is Hugo Bailie Rohan Palmer, born December 5, 1980, at Edinburgh.

References

* Black, A.,& C., "Who's Who", London, 2004, 156th edition, p.1679.ISBN 0-7136-6275-1

*cite web | url= http://www.dodonline.co.uk/engine.asp?lev1=4&lev2=38&menu=81&biog=y&id=26762| title= DodOnline| accessdate= 2007-03-09


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