Noel Palmer

Francis Noel Palmer (1887-18 January 1961) was a British politician.[1]

He was the son of Nathaniel Palmer of Yarmouth. In 1906 he joined the Labour Party.[1] During the First World War he was granted a commission as a second lieutenant in the Essex Regiment, but was discharged from the army with tuberculosis.[1][2] He lived at Normandy, Surrey and was chosen as Labour candidate to contest the local parliamentary constituency of Farnham in 1929.[1] In October 1931 Palmer was expelled from the Labour Party for supporting the National Government, moving into the National Labour Organisation led by the Prime Minister, Ramsay MacDonald.

He was a parliamentary candidate at the 1931 general election at Tottenham North. He unseated the sitting Labour member, Frederick Messer and was one of 13 National Labour MPs elected.[1][3] The situation was reversed when he lost the seat to Messer at the next general election in 1935.[4] By the 1940s his sand and gravel business was in receivership.[5][6]

He died in 1961.[1]

  1. ^ a b c d e f "PALMER, Francis Noel". Who Was Who. Oxford University Press. December 2007. Retrieved 23 October 2010.
  2. ^ "No. 29450". The London Gazette. 25 January 1916. pp. 1012–1013.
  3. ^ "The General Election, First Returns, Polling In The Boroughs". The Times. 28 October 1931. p. 6.
  4. ^ "The General Election, First Returns, Polling In The Boroughs". The Times. 15 November 1935. p. 8.
  5. ^ "From the London Gazette". The Times. 11 October 1947. p. 7.
  6. ^ "From the London Gazette". The Times. 15 December 1948. p. 8.