John Palmer, 4th Earl of Selborne

John Roundell Palmer, 4th Earl of Selborne GBE DL FRS (born March 24, 1940 ) is a British peer and politician of the Conservative Party who has been a member of the House of Lords since 1971 .

Life

Palmer is the son of William Matthew Palmer (1912-1942) and Priscilla Egerton-Warburton (* 1915). His paternal grandfather is Roundell Palmer, 3rd Earl of Selborne , who was Minister for the War Economy from 1942 to 1945. Since his father fell as a captain during the Second World War in 1942, when his grandfather died on September 3, 1971, Palmer inherited his nobility titles as Earl of Selborne , Viscount Wolmer and Baron Selborn and the associated membership in the House of Lords . In the House of Lords he belongs to the Conservative Party faction .

Between 1972 and 1983 he was treasurer of Bridewell Royal Hospital and King Edward's School Witley, and between 1975 and 1989 he was a member of the Agricultural and Food Research Council , of which he was vice-chair in 1982 before he was its chairman from 1983 to 1989. In addition, he was chairman of the Hops Marketing Board between 1978 and 1982 .

The Earl of Selborne, who is since 1982 Deputy Lieutenant of Hants, on June 13, 1987 Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire and in 1991 a Fellow of the Royal Society was, was from 1991 to 1997 Chairman of the United Conservation Committee ( Joint Nature Conservation Committee ) and from 1991 to 1998 President of the Royal Institute of Public Health (RIPHH).

During his membership in the House of Lords, he chaired the Agriculture and Food Subcommittee from 1991 to 1993, which is part of the House of Lords Committee for the European Communities . He was then chairman of the House of Lords Committee on Science and Technology from 1993 to 1997 and was also a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution between 1993 and 1998 .

The Earl of Selbourne, who was Chairman of the Agricultural Mortgage Corporation between 1994 and 2002 , was a member of the extended board of directors of Lloyds Bank plc between 1994 and 1995 and then of Lloyds TSB Group plc from 1995 to 2004. He also acted as Chancellor of the University of Southampton from 1996 to 2006 and was also President of the Royal Geographical Society from 1997 to 2000 and the then independent Institute of British Geographers (IBG).

With the passage of the House of Lords Act 1999 , he lost the automatic seat in the House of Lords along with all other Hereditary Peers. However, he was elected as one of the 92 hereditary peers to remain in the House after the reform.

Between 1999 and 2003 he was again chairman of the subcommittee of the House of Lords on Agriculture and Food and during these years also a member of the UNESCO World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology. Since 2006, the Earl of Selbourne, who between 2003 and 2009 Chairman of the Trust Council of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew , was chairman of the Foundation for Science and Technology ( Foundation for Science and Technology ) and was beyond December 31, 2010 as a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire honored.

Web links

• Entry on Parliament's homepage (accessed on October 29, 2012)
• John Palmer at Hansard (English)
• Biography in Debrett's (accessed October 29, 2012)
• Cracroft's Peerage

predecessor	Office	successor
Roundell Cecil Palmer	Earl of Selborne 1971 – today	current owner of the title