Noel Palmer
Francis Noel Palmer | |
|---|---|
| Member of Parliament for Tottenham South | |
| In office 27 October 1931 – 14 November 1935 | |
| Preceded by | Frederick Messer |
| Succeeded by | Frederick Messer |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1887 |
| Died | 18 January 1961 (aged 73–74) |
| Party | Labour (1906–October 1931) National Labour (from October 1931) |
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 in 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 South. 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]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "PALMER, Francis Noel". Who Was Who. Oxford University Press. December 2007. Retrieved 23 October 2010.
- ↑ "No. 29450". The London Gazette. 25 January 1916. pp. 1012–1013.
- ↑ "The General Election, First Returns, Polling in the Boroughs". The Times. 28 October 1931. p. 6.
- ↑ "The General Election, First Returns, Polling in the Boroughs". The Times. 15 November 1935. p. 8.
- ↑ "From the London Gazette". The Times. 11 October 1947. p. 7.
- ↑ "From the London Gazette". The Times. 15 December 1948. p. 8.