The title of Earl of Selborne was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1882 for Lord Selborne, the Lord Chancellor. The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Act of Union in 1801. ... 1882 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne (1812-1895), Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, was called to the bar in 1837 and entered parliament as a Conservative in 1847. ... The Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, or Lord Chancellor and in former times Chancellor of England, is one of the most senior and important functionaries in the government of the United Kingdom. ...
The Earl bears the subsidiary titles of Viscount Wolmer (1882) and Baron Selborne (1872), both in the Peerage of the UK. 1882 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1872 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
The family seat is Temple Manor, near Selborne, Hampshire. Selborne is a village in Hampshire, England. ... Hampshire (abbr. ...
Selborne, Roundell Palmer, 1st earl of[sel´bOrn] Pronunciation Key, 1812–95, British jurist and statesman.
Selborne was a conservative writer on problems of church history and doctrine.
His son, William Waldegrave Palmer, 2d earl of Selborne, 1859–1942, was first lord of the admiralty (1900–1905) and worked closely with Sir John Fisher (later 1st Baron Fisher) on the important naval reforms of the period.
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