Monroe Edward Palmer, Baron Palmer of Child's Hill, OBE, FCA[1] (born 1938)[2] is a British Liberal Democrat politician and life peer in the House of Lords.
Born on 30 November 1938, Palmer worked for the Liberal Party as treasurer from 1971-83.[2] He contested the Hendon South constituency at the 1979, 1983 and 1987 general elections for the Liberal party, and was joint treasurer of the Liberal parliamentary party from 1977-83. Following the creation of the Liberal Democrats he contested Hastings and Rye at the 1992 and 1997 general elections.
Palmer has been a Barnet councillor in Childs Hill from 1986–94, being elected at the seventh attempt, and since 1998.[2] He has been treasurer of the party's London region since 2008, and Chair of Liberal Democrat Friends of Israel since 1987.[2]
On 19 November 2010, it was announced that Palmer would be created a life peer.[3] He was created Baron Palmer of Childs Hill, of Childs Hill in the London Borough of Barnet on 17 January 2011[4]
He is married to Susette and has three children.[1] He is also Jewish.