Adrian Palmer, 4th Baron Palmer

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Adrian Bailie Nottage Palmer, 4th Baron Palmer (born 8 October 1951) is a Scottish peer and landowner. He is one of the ninety hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999.

The son of Colonel the Hon. Sir Gordon Palmer, in turn younger son of the 2nd Baron Palmer, and Lorna Eveline Hope Bailie, he succeeded to his uncle's titles in 1990. Palmer was educated at Eton College in Berkshire and at the University of Edinburgh, where received a certificate in farming practice in 1979. Palmer was apprentice at Huntley and Palmers Ltd and worked then as sales manager in Belgium and Luxembourg between 1974 and 1977. From 1977 to 1986, he was the Scottish representative to the European Landowners' Organisation (ELO).

For the Historic Houses Association for Scotland, Palmer was vice-chair in 1993 and 1994, and chair between 1994 and 1999. He was member of the executive council of the Historic Houses Association from 1981 to 1999 and of the council of the Scottish Landowners' Federation from 1986 to 1992. Between 1989 and 2005, he was also secretary of the Royal Caledonian Hunt. Palmer was further president of Palm Tree Silk Co in St Lucia, of the British Association of Biofuels and Oils (BABFO) and of the transport division of the Renewable Energy Authority. He is a member of the National Farmers Union of Scotland and since 1994 chair of the Country Sports Defence Trust. Between 1990 and 1996, he was a member of the Royal Company of Archers.

In 1977, he married firstly Cornelia Dorothy Katharine Wadham. Being divorced in 2004, Palmer married secondly Loraine McMurrey in 2006. He has a daughter and two sons by his first wife.