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See also:SELWYN, See also:GEORGE See also:AUGUSTUS (1719-1791) , See also:English wit, son of See also:Colonel See also:John Selwyn (d. 1751) of Matson, See also:Gloucestershire, was See also:born on the 11th of See also:August 1719. Educated at See also:Eton and See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, he became member of See also:parliament for the See also:family See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough of Ludgershall in 1747, and from 1754, three years after he inherited Matson, to 178o he represented See also:Gloucester. In parliament he took no See also:part in debate, but he managed to obtain two or three lucrative sinecures; in society he was very popular and won a See also:great reputation as a wit. He is said to have been very fond of seeing corpses, criminals and executions, and See also:Horace See also:Walpole says he loved " nothing upon See also:earth so well as a criminal, except the See also:execution-of him." He died in See also:London on the 25th of See also:January 1791. Like the See also:eccentric See also:duke of See also:Queensberry Selwyn claimed to be the See also:father of Maria Fagniani, who became the wife of See also:Francis See also:Charles See also:Seymour, 3rd See also:marquess of See also:Hertford.
See J. H. See also:Jesse, George Selwyn and his Contemporaries (1843—1844; new ed., 1882) ; and S. P. Kerr, George Selwyn and the Wits (1909).
End of Article: SELWYN, GEORGE AUGUSTUS (1719-1791)
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