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Roundell Palmer 1st Earl of Selborn (1812-4 May 1895)

Description

lawyer and politician

Biography

He was created (1872) 1st Lord Selborne and (1882) 1st Earl of Selborne. He was briefly engaged to Mary Coleridge in the summer of 1845; he then married (2 February 1848) Lady Laura Waldegrave (d. 1885). [PB: ODNB]