Aubrey de Selincourt (Sélincourt) (1896-1962) was an English writer, classical scholar, and translator. He was educated at Rugby School, and University College, Oxford. In 1919 he married the Australian poet Irene Rutherford McLeod. He became an admired school teacher, at Clayesmore School, Dorset, also writing for the Manchester Guardian and the English Review. 1896 (MDCCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Classics, particularly within the Western University tradition, when used as a singular noun, means the study of the language, literature, history, art, and other aspects of Greek and Roman culture during the time frame known as classical antiquity. ... A view of Rugby School from the rear, including the playing field, where according to legend Rugby was invented Rugby School, located in the town of Rugby in Warwickshire, is one of the oldest public schools in the United Kingdom and is perhaps one of the top co-educational boarding... University College (in full, the College of the Great Hall of the University, commonly known as University College in the University of Oxford, usually known by its derivative, Univ), is a contender for the claim to be the oldest of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the... Dorset (pronounced Dorsit, sometimes in the past called Dorsetshire) is a county in the southwest of England, on the English Channel coast. ... The Guardian was also the name of a U.S. television series. ...

After retiring in 1947 he settled in the Isle of Wight, and wrote prolifically. The Isle of Wight is an English island, south of Southampton off the southern English coast. ...

Family

He was brother-in-law to A. A. Milne, who married his sister Dorothy, and father-in-law to Christopher Robin Milne, who married his daughter Lesley. His father Martin de Selincourt was a successful businessman, owning the Swan & Edgar store in London. A.A. Milne. ... Christopher Robin Milne (August 21, 1920 – April 20, 1996) was the son of author Alan Alexander Milne and Dorothy de Selincourt. ...

Works

• Streams of Ocean (1923) essays
• Isle of Wight (1933)
• Herodutus, The Persian Wars (1942) translator
• Family Afloat (1944)
• Six O'clock and After and Other Rhymes for Children (1945) with Irene de Selincourt
• One More Summer (1946)
• Calicut Lends a Hand (1946)
• Dorset (1947) Vision of England series
• Micky (1947)
• Three Green Bottles (1947)
• A Capful of Wind (1948)
• One Good Tern (1948)
• The Young Schoolmaster (1948)
• Kestrel (1949)
• Sailing: A Guide For Everyman (1949)
• The Raven's Nest (1949)
• Mr Oram's Story. The adventures of Capt. James Cook (1949)
• The Schoolmaster (1951)
• On Reading Poetry (1952)
• The Channel Shore (1953)
• Herodotus, The Histories (1954) translator
• Cat's Cradle (1955)
• Odysseus the Wanderer (1956)
• Six Great Poets: Chaucer, Pope, Wordsworth, Shelley, Tennyson, The Brownings (1956)
• Nansen (1957)
• Six Great Englishmen: Drake, Dr. Johnson, Nelson, Marlborough, Keats, Churchill (1957)
• The Early History of Rome: Books I-V of the History of Rome from Its Foundation, by Titus Livy (1960) translator
• The Book of the Sea (1961) editor
• Arrian's Life of Alexander the Great (1962) translator
• The World of Herodotus (1962)
• The War with Hannibal : Books XXI-XXX of the History of Rome from its Foundation, by Livy (1965) translator
• Six Great Playwrights (1974)