Several prominent people have borne the title of Viscount Palmerston, and most or all the below places are named for one of them – especially for the third, most prominent of them.
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Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865), British Foreign minister and Prime Minister
His daughter, the Honourable Edwina, wife of Lord Louis Mountbatten, inherited Broadlands.
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His son Sir William Temple (1555–1627) was secretary to Sir Philip Sidney and the Earl of Essex and afterwards provost of Trinity College, Dublin.
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson | Viscount | Vickers Viscount | Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein | Palmerston North | William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe | Palmerston | viscount | Palmerston, Northern Territory | Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley | Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham | William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim | Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby | William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne | Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy | Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke | William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor | James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce | Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke | Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston | Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon | Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe | Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford | Viscount Falkland | Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood | John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley | James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon | William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford | William Barrington, 2nd Viscount Barrington | Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere |
It contains a land area of 7160 ha and has 28 km of coastline on each side of the Cape Palmerston—named by Captain James Cook in 1770 after Viscount Palmerston, a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty.