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Selwyn, William, 1732-1817
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1732-1817
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SELWYN, WILLIAM, brother of Charles Jasper Selwyn (qv); b. 14 Jun 1732; adm. Mar 1739/40; KS 1745; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1749, adm. pens. 25 May 1749, scholar 11 May 1750, matr. 1749; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 5 Jul 1749, called to bar 6 Nov 1754, Bencher 10 Nov 1780, Treasurer 1793; KC 1780; [perhaps Counsel for Colonial Business, Home Office Jul 1782 – Apr 1783, Dec 1783 – Feb 1796]; MP Whitchurch 17 Mar 1783-90; m. 15 Sep 1763 Frances Elizabeth, dau. of John Dod, Woodford, Essex; d. 21 Aug 1817.
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GB 2014
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.