Charles Frederick Palmer

Charles Frederick Palmer (9 September 1869 – 25 October 1920) was a British journalist and newspaper editor, closely associated at the end of his career with the politician and business fraudster Horatio Bottomley. Palmer sat briefly in the House of Commons after winning a by-election as an Independent in February 1920.

Palmer started his career in newspapers at the St James's Gazette. He then joined the staff of The Globe and was one of its Parliamentary reporters from 1886–1915. At one time he was a member of the Parliamentary Press Gallery. He became editor of The Globe in 1912 and held that post until 1915. On 6 November 1915, while Palmer was still editor of The Globe, the paper was suspended under the Defence of the Realm Act for repeating the statement that Lord Kitchener had tendered his resignation as Secretary for War even though this had been officially denied by the press bureau. It resumed publication a fortnight later but Palmer was removed from the editor's chair by the paper's owner Dudley Docker. Palmer’s journalistic association with Horatio Bottomley was cemented when he took over as Assistant Editor of John Bull . He also had joint editorial control with Bottomley of the publications, National News and Sunday Evening Telegram. Palmer was also drama and music critic of The People for 20 years. He was one of the founders of the Society of Dramatic Critics which subsequently merged with the Critics Circle of the Institute of Journalists and was a member of its main organising committee. Palmer's other achievements included being associated with journalist and editor Kennedy Jones in raising the £1,000,000,000 Victory Loan and was credited as being the originator of the idea which resulted in the formation of Dudley Docker's Federation of British Industries.

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