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] 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] [2] The situation was reversed when he lost the seat to Messer at the next general election in 1935.[3] By the 1940s his sand and gravel business was in receivership.[4] [5]
He died in 1961.[1]