He was also Warden of Winchester College between 1920 and 1925 and High Steward of Winchester between 1929 and 1942. In 1939, after the failure of the Munich Agreement and appeasement in general to halt Nazi Germany's expansionism in Continental Europe, he wrote a letter to The Daily Telegraph advocating for Winston Churchill to be admitted into the National Government Cabinet. He was made a Knight of the Garter in 1909. Family Lord Selborne married Lady Maud Cecil, elder daughter of future Prime Minister Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, in 1883. A Suiderberg, Pretoria district, Lady Selborne, is named after her. They had three sons and one daughter. Lady Mabel Laura Georgiana Palmer (6 October 188415 July 1958); married Charles Grey, 5th Earl Grey, and had two daughters. Roundell Cecil Palmer, 3rd Earl of Selborne (15 April 18873 September 1971); married, firstly, Hon. Grace Ridley in 1910; had issue. Married, secondly, Valerie Irene Josephine Margaret de Thomka de Thomkahaza in 1966; no issue. Hon. Robert Stafford Arthur Palmer (26 September 188821 January 1916) Hon. William Jocelyn Lewis Palmer (15 September 18946 June 1971); married Hon. Dorothy Cicely Sybil Loder in 1922 and had two children. His second son, the Hon. Robert Palmer, was a captain in the Hampshire Regiment and was killed on active service in Mesopotamia in 1916. His daughter was Lady Mabel Laura Georgiana Palmer, who became Countess Grey as the wife of Charles Grey, 5th Earl Grey. His letters home were privately published as Letters from Mesopotamia. Lord Selborne died in February 1942, aged 82, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Roundell, Viscount Wolmer, who had already the previous year been summoned to the House of Lords by writ of acceleration in his father's junior title of Baron Selborne. The Countess of Selborne died in April 1950. References External links |- 1859 births 1942 deaths Alumni of University College, Oxford Conservative Party (UK) hereditary peers Diplomatic peers Earls in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Garter Knights appointed by Edward VII Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George Wolmer, William Palmer, Viscount Liberal Unionist Party MPs for English constituencies First Lords of the Admiralty Palmer, William Parapsychologists People educated at Temple Grove School People educated at Winchester College Wolmer, William Palmer, Viscount Wolmer, William Palmer, Viscount Wolmer, William Palmer, Viscount Selborne, E2 Ambassadors and High Commissioners of the United Kingdom