George Palmer

George Palmer (23 July 1799 – 26 April 1883), also referred to as George Palmer Jnr, was a lieutenant colonel in the Essex Yeomanry, and one of the South Australian Colonisation Commissioners appointed on 5 May 1835. Early life Palmer was born on 23 July 1799, as the eldest son of George Palmer, MP for South Essex, and Anna Maria Bund, at Nazeing Park. Career According to handwritten notes on a photograph of Palmer in the State Library of South Australia (SLSA), Palmer "raised the West Essex Yeomanry Cavalry in 1830", but a memorial plaque in All Saints' Church in Nazeing gives the date as 1828. He gained the rank of captain in the Essex Yeomanry, later being promoted to lieutenant-colonel. He was appointed as one of the members of the founding South Australian Colonisation Commission on 5 May 1835, a London-based board created under the South Australia Act 1834 to oversee the sale and leasing of land in South Australia to British subjects.