Basil de Sélincourt

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Basil de Sélincourt (19 August 1876 – 16 February 1966) was a British essayist and journalist.[http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp50570/basil-de-selincourt "Basil de Selincourt (1877–1966), Journalist"] UK National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 28 August 2013.

In 1900, de Sélincourt was an Acting Professor of Greek at the University of Sydney{{Cite web |title=Calendar of the University of Sydney 1900 |url=https://archives-search.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/47635 |access-date=2025-03-20 |website=University of Sydney Archives |language=en}} and from 1900-1901 served as President of the Sydney University Union{{Cite news |date=1900-12-15 |title=SYDNEY UNIVERSITY UNION. |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/14353269 |access-date=2025-03-20 |work=Sydney Morning Herald}} (now the University of Sydney Union).

In 1902 he married the orientalist Beryl de Zoete, but the marriage failed, and in 1908 he married the writer Anne Douglas Sedgwick (1873–1935).[http://www.sedgwick.org/na/families/robert1613/ged/d0002/f0000546.html "Basil DE SELINCOURT / Anne Douglas SEDGWICK"] Retrieved 28 August 2013. Basil de Sélincourt's third wife was Julia Sanford Chapin{{Cite web|url=https://woodlloydfamilyhistory.com/fam1744.html|title = Family of Basil DE SELINCOURT and Julia Chapin ALSOP}}

De Sélincourt died in Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire in February 1966.