Gordon Palmer

Colonel Sir Gordon William Nottage Palmer KCVO OBE TD (18 July 1918 – 3 July 1989) was Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire from 1978, High Sheriff of Berkshire, 1965, and Chairman of Huntley and Palmer Foods, Reading, Berkshire.

He was the younger son of Ernest Palmer, 2nd Baron Palmer by his American wife Marguerite McKinley, daughter of William McKinley Osborne, United States Army General. He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford.[1]

Military service

He was commissioned into the Royal Artillery and by the end of the Second World War he was a Lieutenant-Colonel. After the war he served in the Territorial Army and was promoted to Colonel in 1956.

Family

Colonel Palmer married, May 6, 1950, in Duns, Scottish Borders, Lorna Eveline Hope, daughter of Charles William Hugh Bailie, of Manderston, Berwickshire, by which marriage the Palmer family came into possession of Manderston. At the time of his marriage he was resident at 'Fernhurst' at Pinkneys Green in Berkshire. Later, he lived at Foudry House in Stratfield Mortimer.

They had two sons:

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References
  1. ‘PALMER, Col Hon. Sir Gordon William Nottage’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016
Honorary titles
Preceded by
Sir John Smith		 Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire
1978–1989		 Succeeded by
John Ronald Henderson


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