William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne
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William Waldegrave Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne KG, GCMG, PC (17 October 1859 26 February 1942), styled Viscount Wolmer between 1882 and 1895, was a British politician and colonial administrator.Selborne was the son of Lord Chancellor Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne, and Lady Laura, daughter of Vice-Admiral William Waldegrave, 8th Earl Waldegrave. He was educated at Winchester and University College, Oxford, where he took a first class degree in history.Selborne was assistant private secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Hugh Childers, from 1882 to 1885, when he was elected…mehr

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William Waldegrave Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne KG, GCMG, PC (17 October 1859 26 February 1942), styled Viscount Wolmer between 1882 and 1895, was a British politician and colonial administrator.Selborne was the son of Lord Chancellor Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne, and Lady Laura, daughter of Vice-Admiral William Waldegrave, 8th Earl Waldegrave. He was educated at Winchester and University College, Oxford, where he took a first class degree in history.Selborne was assistant private secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Hugh Childers, from 1882 to 1885, when he was elected Liberal Member of Parliament for East Hampshire. Like his father, he became a Liberal Unionist in 1886 when William Ewart Gladstone proposed Irish Home Rule. He retained his seat till 1892, when he was elected for Edinburgh West. In 1895 he was appointed Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies by his father-in-law Lord Salisbury, where he became junior to the Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain. During the difficult period before the outbreak of the Second Boer War he progressed rapidly.