Bill Palmer Obituary

 
Young Bill
Rachel Williams, a distant relative, told me about this obituary of Uncle Bill in the Guards Magazine.
Captain Bill Palmer CBE DL, 
Late Grenadier Guards, 
by his son Howard Palmer QC

William Alexander (Bill) Palmer was born on 21st May 1925 in Down Street in London. He died at home on 31 October 2020, the last survivor of the fourth and final generation of Palmers to serve as directors in the firm of biscuit manufacturers, Huntley & Palmers of Reading. The firm had been founded by Bill’s great great uncle, George Palmer, in partnership with Thomas Huntley, in 1842, and they had been joined soon afterwards by George’s  .......