Earl of Selborne
| Earl of Selborne | |
|---|---|
| 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's heirs 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 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. He had already been made Baron Selborne, of Selborne in the County of Southampton, in 1872, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. 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.