About Nathaniel Palmer
Lived 1660 – 1718 (aged 57–58). Nathaniel Palmer was an English and British politician.
Nathaniel Palmer (c. 1661 – 16 January 1718) was an English politician. He sat as MP for Minehead in 1685 and 1689, Somerset in 1690, Bridgwater in 1695, Somerset on 10 May 1699, December 1701, 1702, and 1705 and Bridgwater in 1710 and 1713.
Family and education He was the second but first surviving son of Peregrine Palmer and the brother of Thomas Palmer. He was educated at Winchester school in 1675. He was matriculated into Trinity College, Oxford on 22 March 1678, aged 17. He entered the Middle Temple in 1678. Circa. 1682, he married Frances (died 14 May 1712), the daughter of Sir William Wyndham, 1st Baronet and they had two sons and four daughters.
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English Member of Parliament (1660-1718)
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Nathaniel Palmer was born on 1 September 1660.
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Nathaniel Palmer died in 1718.
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Nathaniel Palmer was a politician.
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Nathaniel Palmer was English and British.
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