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DEBRETT'S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. 425 To conquer is to live enough. SEFTON, EARL OF. (MOLYNEUX.) Sits as BARON. WILLIAM PHILIP MOLYNEUX, K.T.S., 4th Earl, and a Baronet, Lord Lieut, of Lancashire. Born Oct. 14th, 1835; suc- ceeded his father in 1865 ; was educated at Eton ; entered the Grenadier Guards, 1854, and became Lieut, and Capt. 1857, retired 1858: married (1866) the Hon. Cecil Emily Hylton -Jolliffe, 4th daughter of the 1st Baron Hylton, and has issue, living, Sons, Charles William Hylton, Viscount Moly- neux, b. 1867. Osbert Cecil, b. 1871. Richard Frederick, b. 1873. Daughters, Constance Eleanor, b. 1868. Rose Mary, b. 1870. Brothers living, Caryl Craven, b. 1836, m. 1870. Henry Hervey, b. 1842. Roger Gordon, b. 1849. Sister living, Cecilia Maria Charlotte, b. 1838; m. 1869, the 8th Viscount Downe. Patron of two livings, Altcar, V. Kirkby, V. Lancashire. Creations, Viscount Molyneux, 1 628, Earl of Sefton, 1771, both in the peerage of Ireland ; Baron Sefton of Croxteth, in the county of Lancaster, in the peerage of the United Kingdom, 1831. A Baronet, l6ll. Sons, Azure, a cross moline, or. ((Treat, A chapeau, gules, turned up, ermine, and adorned with a plume of peacocks' feathers, proper. Supporters, Two lions, azure. Seat, Croxteth-hall, Liverpool, Lancashire. Town Residence, Sefton-house, 37, Belgrave-square, S.W. C/w6s, TraveUers', White's, Brooks's, United Service. SEFTON, Earl of, His lordship's predecessor was his father, Charles William, 3rd Earl of Sefton, b. July 10, 1796; succeeded his father, Nov. 20, 1838; he was Lord Lieut, and Custos Rotulorum of Lancashire; rn. June 19, 1834, Mary Augusta, daughter of R. G. Hopwood, Esq. and d. Aug. 2, 1855, having issue four sons and a daughter. SEFTON, Dowager Countess of, MARY AUGUSTA, daughter of Robert Gregge Hopwood, Esq.; m. 1834, the 3rd Earl of Sefton, who d. 1855. Residence, 53, Grosvenor-place, S.W. SELBORNE, BARON. (PALMER.) ROUNDELL PALMER, D.C.L., F.R.S., 1st Baron, second son of the Rev. William Jocelyn Palmer, Rector of Mixbury, Ox- fordshire, by Dorothea, youngest daughter of the late Rev. William Roundel!, of Gledstone, Yorkshire. Born Nov. 27th, 1812. Educated at Winchester and at Trinity College, Oxford, graduated B.A. 1st class in classics, 1834, M.A. 1837, and Hon. D.C.L. 1863, and was for sometime a Fellow of Magdalen College. Called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn July 1837, and The palm is for virtue. made a Q.C. and bencher of his Inn 1849.