Thomas Palmer, FRS of Fairfield Stoke Coursey, was a British lawyer and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1715 and 1735. Palmer was the son of Nathaniel Palmer, MP of Fairfield, Stoke Coursey, Somerset, and his wife, Frances Wyndham, daughter of Sir William Wyndham, 1st Baronet. He matriculated at New College, Oxford in 1700 and then entered the Middle Temple in 1702.