page_title: Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne / Family
caption_attribution_description: English: Rt. Hon. Sir Roundell Palmer 1st Earl of Selborne. Born 27 November 1812. Died 4 May 1895. Educated at St Mary's College, Winchester, and Trinity College, Oxford. Represented Plymouth in Parliament from 1847-1857, and Richmond in the County of York from 1861-1872. Was Solicitor General 1861-1863. Attorney General 1863-1866, and twice Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain from 1872-1874 and from 1880 to 1886.
context_page_description: Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne, PC, FRS was an English lawyer and politician. He served twice as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain.
context_section_description: Selborne married Lady Laura, daughter of William Waldegrave, 8th Earl Waldegrave, in 1848. They had four daughters followed by a son. Their eldest, Laura Elizabeth, was born in 1848 and became an author and social reformer, who in 1876 married George Ridding, the first Bishop of Southwell, so becoming known as Lady Laura Ridding. Their second, Mary Dorothea (1850–1933), married her first cousin, the 9th Earl Waldegrave in 1874. Their third, Sophia Matilda (1852–1915), named after her great-great-aunt, Princess Sophia Matilda of Gloucester, was a writer of fiction and married Amable Charles Franquet, Comte de Franqueville, in 1903. Their fourth, Sarah Wilfreda (1854–1910) married her second cousin, George Tournay Biddulph, son of Robert Biddulph, in 1883. Their son William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne later became a prominent Unionist politician. Lady Selborne died in April 1885. Lord Selborne survived her by ten years and died in May 1895, aged 82.
caption: Memorial in Winchester Cathedral
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