George Selwyn

Who was George Selwyn?

The Rt Rev George Theodore Selwyn was an eminent clergyman in the middle part of the 20th century.

He was born on 30 July 1887 and educated at St. Lawrence College, Ramsgate and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. After a curacy at St Matthew’s Church, Bayswater he emigrated to India as a CMS missionary, eventually becoming Principal of St John’s College, Palamcottah and then Bishop of Tinnevelly in 1945. He retired in 1953 and died four years later on 30 May 1957.