Geoff Ayres Charles Nicholas Pallmer was the grandson of the Chief Justice of Jamaica, and came from Jamaica to represent the plantation owners in parliament. He purchased a “rotten borough” seat, Ludgershall, and spoke against the abolition of slavery and for compensation for plantation owners. He then spent a great deal of money on his campaign to become MP for Surrey, ahead of the Reform Bill.
He married Maria Frances Ingoldsby Massy née Dennis on the 2nd of June 1813. Maria was the widow of Hugh Ingoldsby Massy who died in 1805.
Hugh had been given the estate of Norbiton Place by Maria’s mother, Mary Dennis née Bourke. Mary had purchased Norbiton Place from a Mr. Sherer. Mary was the widow of Francis Dennis, who had amassed a great fortune from sugar plantations in Jamaica (e.g. Prospect near White River). Charles N Pallmer had a lavish lifestyle and was bankrupted in 1831. He defaulted on a bond of £44,460 secured by Norbiton Place, and it became the property of Maurice Thomas of Carey Street, who broke up the estate. Charles and Maria fled to Jamaica, leaving huge debts. After Charles died in Boulonge-sur-Mer, France, on the 30th of September 1848, Maria returned to live in Seething Wells, near the Fox and Hounds public house. She lived here until she died in late 1873, aged 88. In his will Charles left all of his money to his sister Elizabeth Peters Washington Parker. But it all went to creditors. Maria had her own money.