William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne

William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne, 1901

William Waldegrave Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne KG GCMG PC JP (born October 17, 1859 in London , † February 26, 1942 there ) was a British politician. From 1882 to 1895 he carried the courtesy title Viscount Wolmer .

Life

Palmer was born in 1859 as the fifth child and first son of the future Lord Chancellor Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne and his wife Laura Waldegrave . He attended Winchester College and University College in Oxford . On October 27, 1883, he married Lady Beatrix Maud Cecil , daughter of Vice Admiral William Waldegrave, 8th Earl Waldegrave . With the death of his father in 1895, Palmer inherited his title Earl of Selborne , Viscount Wolmer and Baron Selborne .

Palmer he was Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George from 1905 and was inducted into the Order of the Garter in 1909 .

According to him, Cape Selborne named in Antarctica.

Political career

Between 1882 and 1884 Palmer was used as the private secretary of Hugh Childers in the War Office or the Treasury . In the general election of 1885 , Palmer first ran for elections at the national level. He applied for the Liberal Party for the mandate of the constituency of Petersfield (also called "Hampshire East") and narrowly prevailed against his opponent. Like his father, Palmer joined the Liberal Unionists before the general election in 1886 . He held the mandate of his constituency. In the following elections in 1892 Palmer ran in the constituency of Edinburgh West , which his party colleague Thomas Raleigh had only just lost in the previous elections. His only opponent was the liberal Thomas Ryburn Buchanan , who had held the mandate since 1885. Palmer received the majority with 53.7% and won the mandate for the Liberal Unionists. After his father's death, Palmer moved up in the line of succession as a peer in 1895 and did not stand in any further lower house elections . His party colleague Lewis McIver was his successor in the constituency of Edinburgh West .

His father-in-law, Prime Minister Robert Cecil , appointed Palmer Secretary of State for the Colonies under Minister Joseph Chamberlain in 1895 . His term of office lasted until the end of the electoral term and was marked by colonial political unrest, which ultimately resulted in the Second Boer War. In 1900, Palmer was sworn into the Privy Council and appointed First Lord of the Admiralty . Between 1905 and 1910 he held the position of High Commissioner in South Africa . In 1915, Palmer returned to government. He has been appointed President of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries , a position equivalent to the Minister of Agriculture.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne on thepeerage.com , accessed April 11, 2015.
2. ^ Laura Waldegrave on thepeerage.com , accessed April 11, 2015.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Debrett’s Guide to the House of Commons 1886, p. 160.
4. ^ Debrett's Guide to the House of Commons 1916, p. 318.
5. ↑ Lord Selborne granted the Order of the Garter , Manawatu Times, July 21, 1909, p. 5
6. ^ Debrett's Guide to the House of Commons 1886, p. 196.
7. ^ Liberal Year Book 1902
8. ^ Mansons ′ Shetland Almanac and Directory for 1893 , T & Manson, Lerwick, 1893, p. 18.
9. ↑ ^{a b} Viscount Wolmer im Hansard (English)
10. ^ The London Gazette, November 13, 1900
11. ^ S. Whitehead, C. Woodland. H. Cameron: A Guide to the Papers of British Cabinet Ministers 1900-1964 , Royal Historical Society, 1st edition, 1996, pp. 290. ISBN 978-0-521-58743-3
12. ^ AF Cooper: British Agricultural Policy 1912-36: A Study in Conservative Politics , Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1989, p. 38. ISBN 978-0-7190-2886-1

Web links

• Viscount Wolmer im Hansard (English)

predecessor	Office	successor
Roundell Palmer	Earl of Selborne 1895-1942	Roundell Palmer
George Goschen	First Lord of the Admiralty 1900–1905	Edward Marjoribanks