GeorgeAugustusSelwyn was born on 5 April 1809 at Church Row,Hampstead, England, the second son of William Selwyn, a noted constitutional lawyer, and his wife, Laetitia Frances Kynaston.
Selwyn affirmed the corporate nature of the church as an organic body able to determine its representative institutions independently of the state, and believed that the shackles of the Church of England could be removed in the freer colonial setting.
Selwyn's greatest contribution to the Melanesian mission lay in his vision, in his initiatives which ensured the eventual establishment of the bishopric, and in recruiting John Coleridge Patteson, whom he consecrated in 1861 as bishop of Melanesia.
GEORGEAUGUSTUSSELWYN (1719-1791), English wit, son of Colonel John Selwyn (d.
He is said to have been very fond of seeing corpses, criminals and executions, and Horace Walpole says he loved "nothing upon earth so well as a criminal, except the execution of him." He died in London on the 2 5th of January 1791.
Like the eccentric duke of Queensberry Selwyn claimed to be the father of Maria Fagniani, who became the wife of Francis Charles Seymour, 3rd marquess of Hertford.
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