Raymond Cecil Palmer, 3rd Baron Palmer OBE (24 June 1916 – 1990) was a British peer and business man, a member of the House of Lords from 1950 until his death. Early life The son of Ernest Cecil Nottage Palmer, 2nd Baron Palmer and his wife Marguerite Osborne, Palmer was educated at Harrow School and University College, Oxford. He was commissioned as a Lieutenant into the Grenadier Guards, but retired, injured. Career On 6 June 1950, Palmer succeeded his father as Baron Palmer in the peerage of the United Kingdom, giving him a seat in the House of Lords. He also became the third Palmer baronet. He became chairman of Huntley & Palmers and of Huntley, Boorne & Stevens, a director of Associated Biscuit Manufacturers, and president of the Thames Valley Trustee Savings Bank. Personal life On 30 January 1941, Palmer married Victoria Ellen Stevens, daughter of Captain Joseph Arthur Ronald Weston Stevens, and they had three daughters: Amanda Victoria Palmer (1949–1954) Carol Lylie Palmer (born 1951), who married John Wodehouse, future Earl of Kimberley, and is the mother of David Wodehouse, Lord Wodehouse (born 1978). Vanessa Marguerite Palmer (born 1954) Honours Officer of the Order of the British Empire, 1968 Arms Notes 1916 births 1990 deaths People educated at Harrow School Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Raymond