The Henson Journals

Lord Wolmer, 3rd earl of Selborne, Roundell Cecil Palmer

Roundell Palmer, Viscount Wolmer (1887-1971; ODNB). MP (C) Newtown, 1910-18, Aldershot 1918-40; junior minister, 1922-3, assistant postmaster-general, 1924-9; member, house of laymen of Canterbury Convocation and Representative Church Council, 1913-19; member, Archbishops' Committee on Church and State, 1913-16, 1949-50; founder and secretary, Church Self-Government Association, 1917-20, and joint parliamentary committee on church and state 1917-19; manager of the Enabling bill in the House of Commons, 1919; chairman, Central Committee for Church Defence, 1920-22; member, Church Assembly 1920-65, and chairman, 1955-60; member, parliamentary Ecclesiastical Committee from 1920; baron Selborne 1940, 3rd earl of Selborne, 1942; minister of economic warfare, 1942-5. See also Volume 66, 67.

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See also Palmer [née Ridley], Grace