Earl of Selborne

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Earl of Selborne
Coat of arms of Palmer, Earl of Selborne.svg
Creation date30 December 1882
Created by Queen Victoria
Peerage Peerage of the United Kingdom
First holder Roundell 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 1stEarlOfSelborne.jpg
Roundell Palmer,
1st 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. [1] He had already been made Baron Selborne, of Selborne 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 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.

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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. [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.

Arms

Coat of arms of Palmer, Earls of Selborne
Coat of arms of Palmer, Earl of Selborne.svg
Crest
A mount vert, thereon a greyhound sejant sable, collared or, charged on the shoulder with a trefoil slipped argent.
Escutcheon
Argent, two bars sable, charged with three trefoils slipped of the field; in chief a greyhound courant of the second, collared or.
Supporters
On either side a greyhound sable, collared or, and charged on the shoulder with a trefoil slipped argent.
Motto
Palma Virtuti (The palm is for virtue) [5]

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References

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  2. "No. 23910". The London Gazette . 18 October 1872. p. 4937.
  3. Burke's Peerage , vol. 3 (2003), p. 3561
  4. 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.
  5. Montague-Smith, P.W. (ed.), Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage, Kelly's Directories Ltd, Kingston-upon-Thames, 1968, p.1002