 James Tomkinson, Privy Councillor, member of parliament for Crewe 1900–1910, and High Sheriff for Chester in 1887, and his wife Emily Frances Palmer, daughter of Sir George Joseph Palmer, 3rd Baronet.In 1931 James Edward Tomkinson inherited Wanlip Hall in Leicestershire from his maternal uncle Sir Archdale Robert Palmer, 4th Baronet, on condition that he added the name of Palmer to his own.James Edward Palmer-Tomkinson (then Tomkinson) married Marion Lindsay Smith, daughter of Lindsay Eric Smith and a second cousin of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (via her Smith paternal grandmother Frances Dora Smith).