Aubrey de Selincourt

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Aubrey de Selincourt (Sélincourt) (June 7, 1894-December, 1962) was an English writer, classical scholar, and translator. He was educated at Rugby School, and won an open classical scholarship to University College, Oxford. He 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). 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.

1 Family
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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.

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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)

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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.