| Earl of Selborne | |
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| Creation date | 30 December 1882 |
| Created by | Queen Victoria |
| Peerage | Peerage of the United Kingdom |
| First holder | Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne |
| Present holder | William Palmer, 5th Earl of Selborne |
| Heir apparent | Alexander Palmer, Viscount Wolmer |
| Remainder to | the 1st Earl'sheirs male of the body lawfully begotten |
| Subsidiary titles | Viscount Wolmer Baron Selborne |
| Status | Extant |
| Motto | PALMA VIRTUTI (Let the palm be awarded to virtue) |
Earl of Selborne, in the County ofSouthampton, is a title in thePeerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1882 for the lawyer andLiberal politicianRoundell Palmer, 1st Baron Selborne, along with the subsidiary title ofViscount Wolmer, of Blackmoor in theCounty of Southampton.[1] He had already been madeBaron Selborne, ofSelborne in the County of Southampton, in 1872, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.[2] Both his son, the second Earl, and grandson, the third Earl, were prominentLiberal Unionist politicians. The latter was in 1941 called to theHouse of Lords through awrit of acceleration in his father's barony of Selborne. The third Earl's grandson, the fourth Earl, served as one of the ninety electedhereditary peers that remain in the House of Lords after the passing of theHouse of Lords Act 1999, and sat as aConservative. As of 2021, the titles are held by the latter's son, the fifth earl, who succeeded his father in that year.
The family seat is Temple Manor, nearSelborne,Hampshire.
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 atEton College,Christ Church, Oxford, and the Institute of Development Studies atSussex University. He succeeded to the peerages on 12 February 2021.[3]
The heir apparent is his elder son, Alexander David Roundell Palmer, Viscount Wolmer (born 2002).[4] The Earl also has a second son, Thomas, born 2004 and a daughter Anna, born 2006.
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