John Horsley Palmer

John Horsley Palmer (7 July 1779 – 7 February 1858) was an English banker who was Governor of the Bank of England from 1830 to 1833.

Life Palmer was the fourth son and seventh child of William Palmer of Wanlip, Leicestershire (1748?–1821) and later of Nazeing Park, Essex, a London merchant, and his wife Mary Horsley (born 1747 George Palmer (MP for South Essex) was his elder brother, and William Jocelyn Palmer Sir Ralph Palmer were also brothers. In June 2020 the Bank of England issued a public apology for the involvement of Palmer, amongst other employees, in the slave trade following the investigation by the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slave-ownership at UCL.

In 1820, he purchased Hurlingham House in Fulham. He extended the property at Hurlingham by six acres, and let it to the brother of the Duke of Wellington.

Family Palmer married Elizabeth Belli, daughter of John Belli and Elizabeth Stuart Cockerell, on 16 November 1810. Her portrait was painted by Thomas Lawrence.