Earl of Selborne, in the County of Southampton, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
As of 2006 the titles are held by the third Earl's grandson, the fourth Earl.
He is 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 sits as a Conservative.
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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