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ERNEST DE SELINCOURT

Catalogue reference: EDS

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This record is about the ERNEST DE SELINCOURT dating from 1805-1921.

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Reference
EDS
Title
ERNEST DE SELINCOURT
Date
1805-1921
Description

Letters from Selincourt to Keats Memorial Trust, Sidney Colwin and Samual Loveman, March 1915-March 1921, concerning Keats writings. Also includes a letter addressed to 'The Bard', Hayley (William Hayley 1745–1820) Esq, July 3rd 1805, from unknown.

Held by
London University: Queen Mary University of London
Former department reference
PP27
Creator(s)
Selincourt, Ernest De (1870–1943)
Physical description
1 file
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Open

Immediate source of acquisition
Transferred from Westfield College Library in 1989. No information available on custodial history, but likely to have been donated by Agnes De Selincourt, the sister of Ernest De Selincourt.
Unpublished finding aids
http://archives-catalogue.library.qmul.ac.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=EDS
Administrative / biographical background

Selincourt, Ernest De (1870?1943), literary scholar and university teacher. Educated at Huddersfield College and then in 1885 at Dulwich College, matriculated at University College, Oxford in 1890. 1893 to 1895 lectured at Bedford College, and gave tutorials at Oxford; 1896 lecturer in English literature at University College, and in 1899, university lecturer in modern English literature; December 1908 elected to the chair of English literature at Birmingham University; 1919 became dean of the faculty of arts, and in 1931 vice-principal, retired from Birmingham University in 1935. Selincourt was also the brother of Agnes De Selincourt (1872?1917), Principal of Westfield College 1913-1917.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/a14e8bcb-36ce-4db2-8836-356909dc7801/

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