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Adm. (age 17) at KING'S, a scholar from Eton, Aug. 21, 1754. B. at East Barnet, Herts. [S. of Henry Fish (who had assumed the name of Palmer, on succeeding his cousin Charles Palmer whose mother was Maria Fish). Bapt. Dec. 17, 1735, at East Barnet. School, Eton.] ' Matric. Michs. 1754; B.A. 1759; M.A. 1762. Fellow, 1757-63. Ord. priest, Mar. 1760. Private tutor to Lord Roos, later the 4th Duke of Rutland. R. of Borough Green, Cambs., 1760-1806. Visitation of 1779, Our rector the rev. Mr. Palmer is unhappily insane. R. of Lydgate, Suffolk, 1765. Brother of Thomas F. (1765) and of Charles F. (1747). (Eton Coll. Reg.; Northants Clergy, X. 153; W. M. Palmer, History of Borough Green, 135; Cant. Act Book; Notes and Queries, CLX. 399; C. R. Hudleston.)