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.
The latter was in 1941 called to the House of Lords through a writ of acceleration in his father's barony of Selborne.
Styled formally as Viscount Wolmer from birth, he was educated at Eton College, Christ Church, Oxford, and the Institute of Development Studies at Sussex University.
[3] The heir apparent is his elder son, Alexander David Roundell Palmer, Viscount Wolmer (born 2002).