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PALMER, GEORGE (1818-1897) , British biscuit-manufacturer, was born on the 18th of January 1818, at Long Sutton, Somerset-shire, where his family had been yeomen-farmers for several generations. The Palmers were Quakers
Thomas
Reading
brothers
Palmer was elected mayor of Reading
Parliament for the town. He died at Reading, to which he had been a most generous benefactor, on the 19th of August 1897. His sons, George William Palmer (b. 1851) and Sir Walter Palmer (b. 1858), displayed a like munificence, particularly in connexion with University College, Reading. George William Palmer, besides being mayor of Reading, represented the town in Parliament as a Liberal. Sir Walter Palmer, who was created a baronet
Salisbury
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