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'''Edward John Selwyn'''
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| first_name = Edward John
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| honorific_prefix = Revd.
| honorific_suffix = MA
| image = File:Selwyn,_Edward_John.jpg
| birth_date = 1822
| death_date = 1893
| address = Blackheath [1853]
| occupation = church
| elected_ESL = 1853.12.01
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI =
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ESL Ordinary Fellow
| left = 1862 council member
| clubs =
| societies = Philological Society
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
ESL Council 1855-56 Member <br />ESL Council 1856-57 Member<br />ESL Council 1857-58 Member <br />ESL Council 1858-59 Member [retiring]<br />ESL Council 1860-61 Member <br />ESL Council 1861-62 Member [retiring]
=== House Notes ===
Committee for selection and publication of papers Feb 58; Publication committee Jul 58
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
SELWYN (Rev. E.J.), head master of Proprietary School, Blackheath, Kent <br />SELWYN (Edward John), Vicar of Bickley, and (1873) Rector of Pluckley, Kent <br />was chaplain at Saas-im-Grund, Switzerland; rector of Ulcomb, of Pluckley<br />Born 17 Apr 1822 Cambridgeshire, England <br />Died 15 Aug 1893 Pluckley, Kent <br />Buried 16 Aug 1893 Pluckley, Kent <br />Edward John Selwyn, M.A., like several of his predecessors, was a gentleman of considerable literary attainments, and is described as " a man of very great learning and culture, and a most accurate scholar." He descended from a Gloucestershire family. His father was Rev. Edward Selwyn, formerly an oiBcer E.A., and afterwards of St. Katherine's College, Cambridge, and Vicar of Ruddington, Xotts, and subsequently of Hemingford Abbots, Hunts; his mother was Fanny daughter of Rev. John Simons, Rector of Paul's Cray, Kent. Their son Edward John was born at Cambridge March 17th, 1822, and brought up at Oakham Grammar<br />School, and at Eepton, whence he went up with an exhibition in 1842 to Trinity College, Cambridge. He obtained a College Scholarship and the Bell University Scholarship in 1843 ; graduated B.A. in 1846, and M.A. 1849, being ordained deacon in 1847, and priest the next year.<br /><br />Mr. Selwyn became Head Master of the Blackheath Proprietary School, 1847-64; Evening Lecturer of St. Margaret, Lee, Kent, 1859-64 ; was the first Rector of St. Paul, Wokingham, Berks, 1864-67 ; Vicar of St George's, Bickley, Kent, 1867—1873, when he came to Pluckley, a mandate for his induction to the same being dated April 7, 1878. He was Rector twenty years, and for five was Rural Dean. He erected principally at his own expense St. Mary's<br />Church, close to the railway station.<br /><br />He was twice married ; first to Henrietta De la Cour third daughter of Rev. Peter Maingay of St. James, Guernsey ; she died September 13, 1851, aged 29, and was buried in the cemetery there; M.I. ; secondly, at Clapham, December 22, 1853, to Maria Sophia second daughter of "W. Hughes-Hughes, Esq., formerly M.P. for<br />Oxford, a Barrister, and an Alderman of City of London.<br /><br />Mr. Selwyn died August 15, 1893, aged 71, leaving a widow and three children. His son Rev. E. Carus Selwyn is Head Master of Uppingham School. He was buried on August 16th in Pluckley Churchyard, and by his request laid with his face towards his people, wearing his cassock, surplice, and stole.
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
The Love and the Pursuit of Heavenly Wisdom. A sermon on Proverbs viii. 17, etc by Edward John Selwyn (1858) <br /><br /> Remember. A funeral sermon on Heb. xiii. 7 preached in the Parish Church of St. Clement Danes, ... on occasion... by Edward John Selwyn (1864)
=== House Publications ===
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
=== Other Material ===
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| first_name = Edward John
| name = Selwyn
| honorific_prefix = Revd.
| honorific_suffix = MA
| image = File:Selwyn,_Edward_John.jpg
| birth_date = 1822
| death_date = 1893
| address = Blackheath [1853]
| occupation = church
| elected_ESL = 1853.12.01
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI =
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ESL Ordinary Fellow
| left = 1862 council member
| clubs =
| societies = Philological Society
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
ESL Council 1855-56 Member <br />ESL Council 1856-57 Member<br />ESL Council 1857-58 Member <br />ESL Council 1858-59 Member [retiring]<br />ESL Council 1860-61 Member <br />ESL Council 1861-62 Member [retiring]
=== House Notes ===
Committee for selection and publication of papers Feb 58; Publication committee Jul 58
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
SELWYN (Rev. E.J.), head master of Proprietary School, Blackheath, Kent <br />SELWYN (Edward John), Vicar of Bickley, and (1873) Rector of Pluckley, Kent <br />was chaplain at Saas-im-Grund, Switzerland; rector of Ulcomb, of Pluckley<br />Born 17 Apr 1822 Cambridgeshire, England <br />Died 15 Aug 1893 Pluckley, Kent <br />Buried 16 Aug 1893 Pluckley, Kent <br />Edward John Selwyn, M.A., like several of his predecessors, was a gentleman of considerable literary attainments, and is described as " a man of very great learning and culture, and a most accurate scholar." He descended from a Gloucestershire family. His father was Rev. Edward Selwyn, formerly an oiBcer E.A., and afterwards of St. Katherine's College, Cambridge, and Vicar of Ruddington, Xotts, and subsequently of Hemingford Abbots, Hunts; his mother was Fanny daughter of Rev. John Simons, Rector of Paul's Cray, Kent. Their son Edward John was born at Cambridge March 17th, 1822, and brought up at Oakham Grammar<br />School, and at Eepton, whence he went up with an exhibition in 1842 to Trinity College, Cambridge. He obtained a College Scholarship and the Bell University Scholarship in 1843 ; graduated B.A. in 1846, and M.A. 1849, being ordained deacon in 1847, and priest the next year.<br /><br />Mr. Selwyn became Head Master of the Blackheath Proprietary School, 1847-64; Evening Lecturer of St. Margaret, Lee, Kent, 1859-64 ; was the first Rector of St. Paul, Wokingham, Berks, 1864-67 ; Vicar of St George's, Bickley, Kent, 1867—1873, when he came to Pluckley, a mandate for his induction to the same being dated April 7, 1878. He was Rector twenty years, and for five was Rural Dean. He erected principally at his own expense St. Mary's<br />Church, close to the railway station.<br /><br />He was twice married ; first to Henrietta De la Cour third daughter of Rev. Peter Maingay of St. James, Guernsey ; she died September 13, 1851, aged 29, and was buried in the cemetery there; M.I. ; secondly, at Clapham, December 22, 1853, to Maria Sophia second daughter of "W. Hughes-Hughes, Esq., formerly M.P. for<br />Oxford, a Barrister, and an Alderman of City of London.<br /><br />Mr. Selwyn died August 15, 1893, aged 71, leaving a widow and three children. His son Rev. E. Carus Selwyn is Head Master of Uppingham School. He was buried on August 16th in Pluckley Churchyard, and by his request laid with his face towards his people, wearing his cassock, surplice, and stole.
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
The Love and the Pursuit of Heavenly Wisdom. A sermon on Proverbs viii. 17, etc by Edward John Selwyn (1858) <br /><br /> Remember. A funeral sermon on Heb. xiii. 7 preached in the Parish Church of St. Clement Danes, ... on occasion... by Edward John Selwyn (1864)
=== House Publications ===
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
=== Other Material ===
