Aubrey de Selincourt

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Aubrey de Selincourt (Sélincourt) (1896-1962) was an English writer, classical scholar, and translator. He was educated at Rugby School, and University College, Oxford. In 1919 he married the Australian poet Irene Rutherford McLeod. He became an admired school teacher, at Clayesmore School, Dorset, also writing for the Manchester Guardian and the English Review.

After retiring in 1947 he settled in the Isle of Wight, and wrote prolifically.

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[edit] Family

He was brother-in-law to A. A. Milne, who married his sister Dorothy, and father-in-law to Christopher Robin Milne, who married his daughter Lesley. His father Martin de Selincourt was a successful businessman, owning the Swan & Edgar store in London.

[edit] 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 (1947)
  • A Capful of Wind (1948)
  • One Good Tern (1948)
  • 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)

[edit] References

  • Herodotus. The Histories. Aubrey de Selincourt, translator. London: Penguin, 1954.

[edit] External links

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