Roundell Palmer 1st Earl Selborne 1812-1895

Paternal Family Tree: Palmer

On 10th September 1810 [his father] William Jocelyn Palmer [aged 32] and [his mother] Dorothea Roundell were married.

On 27th November 1812 Roundell Palmer 1st Earl Selborne was born to William Jocelyn Palmer [aged 34] and Dorothea Roundell at Mixbury, Oxfordshire.

On 2nd February 1848 Roundell Palmer 1st Earl Selborne [aged 35] and Laura Waldegrave Countess Selborne [aged 26] were married. She the daughter of William Waldegrave 8th Earl Waldegrave [aged 59].

On 25th March 1850 [his daughter] Mary Dorothea Palmer Countess Waldegrave was born to Roundell Palmer 1st Earl Selborne [aged 37] and [his wife] Laura Waldegrave Countess Selborne [aged 28]. She married 5th August 1874 her half first cousin William Frederick Waldegrave 9th Earl Waldegrave and had issue.

In 1853 [his father] William Jocelyn Palmer [aged 74] died. He was buried at St Michael and All Angels Church, Finmere [Map].

On 17th October 1859 [his son] William Palmer 2nd Earl Selborne was born to Roundell Palmer 1st Earl Selborne [aged 46] and [his wife] Laura Waldegrave Countess Selborne [aged 38]. He married 27th October 1883 Beatrix Maud Gascoyne-Cecil Countess Selborne, daughter of Robert Gascoyne-Cecil 3rd Marquess Salisbury and Georgina Alderson Marchioness of Salisbury, and had issue.

In 1860 [his brother-in-law] Bishop Samuel Waldegrave [aged 40] was appointed Bishop of Carlisle.

On 1st October 1869 [his brother-in-law] Bishop Samuel Waldegrave [aged 50] died at his residence Rose Castle, Dalston [Map], Cumberland. Monument in Carlisle Cathedral [Map] sculpted by John Adams Acton [aged 38].

Bishop Samuel Waldegrave: On 13th September 1819 he was born to William Waldegrave 8th Earl Waldegrave in Cardington, Bedfordshire. He a great x 4 grandson of King James II of England Scotland and Ireland. In 1860 he was appointed Bishop of Carlisle.

On 15th October 1872 Roundell Palmer 1st Earl Selborne [aged 59] was created 1st Baron Selborne of Selborne in Hampshire. [his wife] Laura Waldegrave Countess Selborne [aged 51] by marriage Baroness Selborne of Selborne in Hampshire.

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On 5th August 1874 [his son-in-law] William Frederick Waldegrave 9th Earl Waldegrave [aged 23] and Mary Dorothea Palmer Countess Waldegrave [aged 24] were married. She by marriage Countess Waldegrave. She the daughter of Roundell Palmer 1st Earl Selborne [aged 61] and Laura Waldegrave Countess Selborne [aged 53]. They were half first cousins. He a great x 5 grandson of King James II of England Scotland and Ireland. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King James II of England Scotland and Ireland.

The London Gazette 25183. Whitehall, December 29, 1882. The Queen has been pleased to direct Letters Patent to be passed under the Great Seal granting the dignities of a Viscount and an Earl of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto the Right Honourable Roundell, Lord Selborne [aged 70], Lord High Chancellor of that part of the said United Kingdom called Great Britain, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the names, styles, and titles of Viscount Wolmer, of Blackmoor, in the county of Southampton, and Earl of Selborne, in the said county. [[his wife] Laura Waldegrave Countess Selborne [aged 61] by marriage Countess Selborne.]

Around 1883. Bassano Ltd. Photograph of Roundell Palmer 1st Earl Selborne [aged 70].

On 27th October 1883 William Palmer 2nd Earl Selborne [aged 24] and Beatrix Maud Gascoyne-Cecil Countess Selborne [aged 25] were married. She the daughter of Robert Gascoyne-Cecil 3rd Marquess Salisbury [aged 53] and Georgina Alderson Marchioness of Salisbury [aged 56]. He the son of Roundell Palmer 1st Earl Selborne [aged 70] and Laura Waldegrave Countess Selborne [aged 62].

On 10th April 1885 [his wife] Laura Waldegrave Countess Selborne [aged 63] died.

On 4th May 1895 Roundell Palmer 1st Earl Selborne [aged 82] died. His son William [aged 35] succeeded 2nd Earl Selborne, 2nd Viscount Wolmer of Blackmoor in Hampshire, 2nd Baron Selborne of Selborne in Hampshire. Beatrix Maud Gascoyne-Cecil Countess Selborne [aged 37] by marriage Countess Selborne.

Ancestors of Roundell Palmer 1st Earl Selborne 1812-1895

Roundell Palmer 1st Earl Selborne

Grandfather: William Roundell of Gledstone Hall in Yorkshire

mother: Dorothea Roundell