George Augustus Selwyn

(1719-1791)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Selwyn, George Augustus, 1719-1791 NRA: Selwyn George Augustus (1719-1791) Wit and Politician DNB: Selwyn, George Augustus (1719-1791), wit and politician LBT ID: GeSelwy1791 VIAF ID: 19773764 LOC ID: n88056068	B/BAP: 1719-08-11 DIED: 1791-01-25
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English wit and politician; he was MP for Ludgershall (1747) and Gloucester (1754-80) and held various government offices.
REFERENCES TO George Augustus Selwyn: Airlie, Mabell, Countess of, 1866-1956, In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) Chapter I. Found 1: ¶ 7