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George Augustus Selwyn (11 August 1719 – 25 January 1791) of Matson House in Gloucestershire, England, was a Member of Parliament. A renowned eccentric and "necrophiliac, gay transvestite, he sat mute, loved, and undisturbed in the House of Commons for 44 years".
8 de fev. de 2017 · A book review of Robert William Keith Wilson's monograph on the life and work of George Augustus Selwyn, the first and only Bishop of New Zealand from 1841 to 1868. The reviewer praises the book's scholarship and its contribution to the history of Anglicanism in New Zealand.
- Geoffrey Troughton
- 2017
Bishop George Augustus Selwyn (left) and his close friend William Martin, the former chief justice of New Zealand, photographed in the early 1860s
George Augustus Selwyn (5 April 1809 – 11 April 1878) was the first Anglican Bishop of New Zealand. He was Bishop of New Zealand (which included Melanesia) from 1841 to 1869. His diocese was then subdivided and Selwyn was Metropolitan (later called Primate) of New Zealand from 1858 to 1868.
22 de abr. de 2024 · George Augustus Selwyn (born April 5, 1809, Hampstead, London—died April 11, 1878, Lichfield, Staffordshire, Eng.) was the first Anglican bishop of New Zealand. Selwyn was educated at Eton and St. John’s College, Cambridge. In 1833 he was ordained a deacon and became a curate at Windsor.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
George Augustus Selwyn. 1809-1878. Itinerary and Acta of George Augustus Selwyn Compiled by Michael Blain, 2006. A Sermon, Preached in the Chapel of Lambeth Palace, at the Consecration of the Lord Bishop of New Zealand, on Sunday, October 17, 1841. By William Hart Coleridge.
George Augustus Selwyn was the first Bishop of New Zealand 1841-68, and at the end of his life, Bishop of Lichfield (1868-78). He helped to create not only the Church in, but also the Dominion of New Zealand; a big, powerful, controversial, fearless man.
