Earl of Selborne

Earl of Selborne, in the County of Southampton, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1882 for the lawyer and Liberal politician Roundell Palmer, 1st Baron Selborne, along with the subsidiary title of Viscount Wolmer, of Blackmoor in the County of Southampton.[2] He had already been made Baron Selborne, of Selborne in the County of Southampton, in 1872, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.[3] Both his son, the second Earl, and grandson, the third Earl, were prominent Liberal Unionist politicians. The latter was in 1941 called to the House of Lords through a writ of acceleration in his father's barony of Selborne. The third Earl's grandson, the fourth Earl, served as one of the ninety elected hereditary peers that remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999, and sat as a Conservative. As of 2021, the titles are held by the latter's son, the fifth earl, who succeeded his father in that year.

Earl of Selborne
Arms of Palmer, Earls of Selborne: Argent, on two bars sable three trefoils slipped of the field in chief a greyhound courant of the second collard or[1]
Creation date30 December 1882
Created byQueen Victoria
PeeragePeerage of the United Kingdom
First holderRoundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne
Present holderWilliam Palmer, 5th Earl of Selborne
Heir apparentAlexander Palmer, Viscount Wolmer
Remainder tothe 1st Earl's heirs male of the body lawfully begotten
Subsidiary titlesViscount Wolmer
Baron Selborne
StatusExtant
MottoPALMA VIRTUTI
(Let the palm be awarded to virtue)
Roundell Palmer,
1st Earl of Selborne

The family seat is Temple Manor, near Selborne, Hampshire.

Barons Selborne (1872)

Earls of Selborne (1882)

Present peer

William Lewis Palmer, 5th Earl of Selborne (born 1 September 1971) is the eldest of the three sons of the 4th Earl and his wife Joanna Van Antwerp James. Styled formally as Viscount Wolmer from birth, he was educated at Eton College, Christ Church, Oxford, and the Institute of Development Studies at Sussex University. He succeeded to the peerages on 12 February 2021.[4]

The heir apparent is his elder son, Alexander David Roundell Palmer, Viscount Wolmer (born 2002).[5]

Heraldry

Arms of Palmer: Argent, on two bars sable three trefoils slipped of the field in chief a greyhound courant of the second collard or. Crest: On a mount vert a greyhound sejant sable collared or charged on the shoulder with a trefoil slipped argent. Supporters: On either side a greyhound sable collared or and charged on the shoulder with a trefoil argent.[6]

See also

References
  1. Montague-Smith, P.W. (ed.), Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage, Kelly's Directories Ltd, Kingston-upon-Thames, 1968, p.1002
  2. "No. 25183". The London Gazette. 29 December 1882. p. 6649.
  3. "No. 23910". The London Gazette. 18 October 1872. p. 4937.
  4. Burke's Peerage, vol. 3 (2003), p. 3561
  5. Morris, Susan; Bosberry-Scott, Wendy; Belfield, Gervase, eds. (2019). "Selborne, Earl of". Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage. Vol. 1 (150th ed.). London: Debrett's Ltd. pp. 3128–3131. ISBN 978-1-999767-0-5-1.
  6. Montague-Smith, P.W. (ed.), Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage, Kelly's Directories Ltd, Kingston-upon-Thames, 1968, p.1002
  • Kidd, Charles; Williamson, David, eds. (2003). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage. London: Macmillan. pp. P1447–P1448. ISBN 978-0-3336-6093-5.
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