Men-at-the-Bar/Selborne, Earl of (Rt. Hon. Roundell Palmer)
Selborne, Earl of (Rt. Hon. Roundell Palmer), co. Southampton, and Viscount Wolmer of Blackmoor, in said county, so created 1883, lord high chancellor of Great Britain 1872-4 and since 1880, deputy steward of Oxford Univ. and counsel to Oxford Univ. 1861-3, solicitor-general 1861-3, knighted 5 Aug., 1861, attorney-general 1863-6, M.P. Plymouth 1847-52 and 1853-7, Richmond 1861-72, counsel for British Government in the Geneva Convention under the treaty of Washington 1871, educated at Rugby and Winchester, hon. D.C.L. (1862), scholar Trin. Coll., Oxon, 1830, M.A. (1837), fellow Magdalen Coll., Oxon, 1834, 1st class classics 1834, chancellor's prizes for Latin verse and essay 1831, Newdigate prize for English verse 1832, Dean Ireland scholarship 1832 and Eldon law scholarship 1834, was a member of the commissions on marriage laws, law digest, judicature, naturalization, extradition, and neutrality laws, a student of Lincoln's Inn 30 May, 1834 (then aged 21), called to the bar 9 June, 1837, Q.C. April, 1849, bencher 23 April, 1849, treasurer 1864 (2nd son of Rev. William Jocelyn Palmer, D.D., rector of Mixbury, Oxon); born 27 Nov., 1812; married 2 Feb., 1848, Lady Laura Waldegrave, 2nd dau. of William, 8th Earl Waldegrave, and has issue (see Foster's Peerage).
- Blackmoor, Petersfield, Hants; 30, Portland Place, W; Athenæum and Oxford & Cambridge Clubs.