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Sir Charles Palmer, 1st Baronet took which position before Nov 1879?
Sir Charles Palmer , 1st Baronet Sir Charles Mark Palmer , 1st Baronet ( 3 November 1822 – 4 June 1907 ) was an English shipbuilder born in South Shields , County Durham , England . He was also a Liberal Party politician and Member of Parliament . His father , originally the captain of a whaler , moved in 1828 to Newcastle upon Tyne , where he owned a ship owning and ship-broking business . Early life . At the age of 15 Charles Palmer entered a shipping business in the city . After six months , he travelled to Marseilles , France , where his father had procured him a post in a large commercial house , at the same time entrusting him with the local agency of his own business . After two years experience in Marseilles he entered his fathers business in Newcastle , and in 1842 he became a partner . His business capacity attracted the attention of a leading local colliery owner , and he was appointed manager of the Marley Hill colliery south of Gateshead , in which he became a partner in 1846 . Subsequently , he was made one of the managers of the associated collieries north and south of the Tyne owned by Lord Ravensworth , Lord Wharncliffe , the Marquess of Bute and Lord Strathmore . Emergence as an entrepreneur . Using the profits of the Marley Hill colliery , he gradually purchased the properties of his erstwhile employer , while simultaneously he greatly developed the recently established coke trade , obtaining the coke contracts for several of the large English and continental railways . Establishment of Palmers shipyard . About 1850 the question of coal-transport to the London market became a serious question for north country colliery proprietors . Palmer therefore built , largely according to his own plans , the John Bowes , the first iron screw collier , and several other steam-colliers , in a yard established by him at Jarrow , then a small Tyneside village . He then purchased iron mines in Yorkshire and erected large shipbuilding yards along the Tyne at Jarrow , including blast-furnaces , steel-works , rolling-mills and engine works , all on a massive scale . The firm produced warships as well as merchant vessels , and its system of rolling armour plates , introduced in 1856 , was generally adopted by other builders . In 1865 he turned the business into Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company Limited . Military career . In 1868 Palmer raised a new unit in the Volunteer Force , the 1st Durham Engineer Volunteers at Jarrow , and he was commissioned as Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant . Later , the 1st Durham EV merged with the smaller 1st Newcastle EV as the 1st Newcastle upon Tyne and Durham EV , with Palmer as commanding officer . Palmer retired from the Volunteers in 1888 with the rank of Colonel . The same year , the 1st Newcastle & Durham was split into three separate units : the 1st Durham Royal Engineers ( Volunteers ) , at Jarrow , and the Tyne Division RE ( V ) , Submarine Miners at North Shields , with Palmer as Honorary Commandant of both units , together with a new 1st Newcastle upon Tyne RE ( V ) . Palmers younger brother , Alfred Septimus Palmer ( 1834–1910 ) , a Newcastle mining engineer who had been a major in the 1st Newcastle and Durham , became commanding officer of the third unit . Political career . At the 1874 general election , Palmer was elected as Liberal Party Member of Parliament ( MP ) for North Durham , and held the seat until its abolition for the 1885 general election . He was then elected for the new Jarrow constituency , and sat for the constituency until his death in London in 1907 . He was twice Mayor of Jarrow , in 1875 and again in 1902–03 . Palmer was in 1902 President of the Newcastle and Gateshead Chamber of Commerce ( he probably held this position for several years ) . Baronetcy . In 1886 , Palmers services in connection with the settlement of the costly dispute between British ship-owners and the Suez Canal Company ( of which he was then a director ) were rewarded with a baronetcy , as Sir Charles Palmer , 1st Baronet of Grinkle Park , County York . He was lord of the manor of Hinderwell which was inherited by his widow Gertrude . Family . Palmer married , firstly , on 29 July 1846 , Jane , daughter of Ebenezer Robson of Newcastle . They had two sons : - George Robson Palmer , later 2nd Baronet ( 1849–1910 ) - Alfred Molyneux Palmer , later 3rd Baronet ( 1853–1935 ) Jane Palmer died on 6 April 1865 . Palmer married , secondly , on 4 July 1867 , Augusta Mary , daughter of Alfred Lambert , of Paris and Massa di Carraca , Italy . They had two further sons : - Lt-Col Claude Bowes Palmer , CBE , Royal Army Medical Corps ( Volunteers ) ( 1868–1949 ) - Capt Lionel Hugo Palmer , 3rd Bn West Yorkshire Regiment and Royal North West Mounted Police , Canada ( 1870–1914 ) Augusta Palmer died 2 December 1875 . Palmer married , thirdly , on 17 February 1877 , Gertrude , daughter of James Montgomrey of Brentford , Middlesex . They had two children : - Major Godfrey Mark Palmer , MP for Jarrow ( 1878–1933 ) - Hilda Gertrude Montgomerie Palmer ( 1884–1946 ) Sir Charles Palmer died on 4 June 1907 , when he was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son . Gertrude , Lady Palmer , died on 21 January 1918 . References . - Burkes Peerage and Baronetage ( various edns ) . - Maj O.M . Short , Maj H . Sherlock , Capt L.E.C.M . Perowne and Lt M.A . Fraser , The History of the Tyne Electrical Engineers , Royal Engineers , 1884–1933 , 1933/Uckfield : Naval & Military , nd , . - R.A . Westlake , Royal Engineers ( Volunteers ) 1859–1908 , Wembley : R.A . Westlake , 1983 , . External links . - Land Forces of Britain , the Empire and Commonwealth ( Regiments.org )