Thomas Palmer ( ? 1685 - 1735 )

Death: Fairfield, Somerset (06 or 16 March 1735) Education: New College, Oxford (matriculated 1700); Middle Temple (admitted 1702) Career: MP for Bridgewater (1715-1727, 1731-death); Recorder of Bridgwater (1720- 1734); was one of the managers of the impeachment of Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield (FRS 1712) (1725); died of an unknown illness and left directions for his body to be autopsied so that 'the calamitous illness which I have been so long afflicted with, and to which all the persons I have applied to have been unable to find the cause or the cure, may after my death be of use to some other unhappy persons who may be in the same condition, and may be helped by the knowledge' Membership: Fellow Election Date: 12/05/1726 Proposers: John Hadley.