Aubrey de Selincourt
Aubrey de Selincourt (Sélincourt) (June 7, 1894 – December, 1962) was an English writer, classical scholar, and translator.
de Selincourt was educated at Rugby School, and won an open classical scholarship to University College, Oxford.
de Selincourt served with the North Staffordshire Regiment at Gallipoli and later as a pilot in 25 Squadron RFC. On May 28 1917 he was shot down whilst flying an FE2d by Werner Voss, becoming the latter's 31st victory and a prisoner of war for the remainder of the First World War (Diggens 2003:57).
Aubrey de Selincourt taught as a master at the Dragon School, Oxford, then as Headmaster at Clayesmore School, Dorset, followed by master at Bryanston School, Dorset. He also writing for the Manchester Guardian and the English Review.
After retiring in 1947, de Selincourt settled in the Isle of Wight, and devoted himself to writing.
Family
de Selincourt's father Martin was a successful businessman, owning the Swan & Edgar store in London. de Selincourt was brother-in-law to A. A. Milne, who married his sister Dorothy. In 1919, de Selincourt married the Australian poet Irene Rutherford McLeod. Their daughter Lesley married Christopher Robin Milne. He had another daughter, Anne.
He suffered from some degree of ill health, not ameliorated by Clayesmore School's financial difficulties. At Clayesmore, his brother Guy was Bursar. Both had sailing among their recreations.
Works
- Streams of Ocean (1923) essays
- Isle of Wight (1933)
- Family Afloat (1944)
- Six O'clock and After and Other Rhymes for Children (1945) with Irene de Selincourt
- One More Summer (1946)
- Calicut Lends a Hand (1946)
- Dorset (1947) Vision of England series
- Micky (1947)
- Three Green Bottles (1941)
- A Capful of Wind (1948)
- One Good Tern (1943)
- The Young Schoolmaster (1948)
- Kestrel (1949)
- Sailing: A Guide For Everyman (1949)
- The Raven's Nest (1949)
- Mr Oram's Story. The adventures of Capt. James Cook (1949)
- The Schoolmaster (1951)
- On Reading Poetry (1952)
- The Channel Shore (1953)
- Herodotus, The Histories (1954) translator
- Cat's Cradle (1955)
- Odysseus the Wanderer (1956)
- Six Great Poets: Chaucer, Pope, Wordsworth, Shelley, Tennyson, The Brownings (1956)
- Nansen (1957)
- Six Great Englishmen: Drake, Dr. Johnson, Nelson, Marlborough, Keats, Churchill (1957)
- The Early History of Rome: Books I-V of the History of Rome from Its Foundation, by Titus Livy (1960) translator
- The Book of the Sea (1961) editor
- Arrian's Life of Alexander the Great (1962) translator
- The World of Herodotus (1962)
- The War with Hannibal : Books XXI-XXX of the History of Rome from its Foundation, by Livy (1965) translator
- Six Great Playwrights (1974)
References
- Anon (1962) The Times obituary December 22 1962
- Diggens, B. (2003) September Evening: The Life and Final Combat of the German Ace Werner Voss. Grub Street, London.
- Herodotus. The Histories. Aubrey de Selincourt, translator. London: Penguin, 1954.
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