George Selwyn (Bishop of New Zealand)

Selwyn was born at Church Row, Hampstead, the second son of William Selwyn (1775–1855) and of Laetitia Frances Kynaston. At the age of seven he went to Great Ealing School, the school of George Nicholas and his two sons, where the future Cardinal Newman and Newman's brother Francis were among his schoolfellows. He then went to Eton, where he distinguished himself, both as scholar and as athlete, and knew William Ewart Gladstone.

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In 1827 he became scholar of St John's College, Cambridge. He came out second in the Classical Tripos in 1831, graduating Bachelor of Arts (BA) 1831, Cambridge Master of Arts (MA Cantab) 1834, and Doctor of Divinity (DD) per lit. reg. 1842, and was a fellow of St John's from 1833 to 1840.{{acad|id=SLWN826GA|name=Selwyn, George Alexander}} He was a member of the Cambridge crew which competed in the inaugural Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race at Henley on Thames in 1829.[https://archive.org/details/boatingb00woodrich Walter Bradford Woodgate Boating 1888]

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After graduating from Cambridge, Selwyn worked at Eton College, becoming assistant master and tutoring the sons of Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis. In 1833 he was ordained deacon, and in 1834, a priest; he acted as curate to Isaac Gosset, the vicar of St John's, Windsor from 1833 until 1841. Both at Eton and at Windsor, Selwyn displayed much organising talent. In 1841, after an episcopal council held at Lambeth had recommended the appointment of a bishop for New Zealand, Charles James Blomfield, Bishop of London, offered the post to Selwyn.

Consecrated at Lambeth on 17 October 1841,{{cite web |title= The Church Missionary Gleaner, February 1842 |work=Departure of the Bishop of New Zealand for his Diocese|access-date=9 October 2015 |url= http://www.churchmissionarysociety.amdigital.co.uk/Documents/Images/CMS_OX_Gleaner_1842_02/11| publisher = Adam Matthew Digital}} Bishop Selwyn embarked for his new missionary diocese on 26 December. He appointed William Charles Cotton as his chaplain. The 23-member missionary party set sail from Plymouth late in December 1841 on board the barque Tomatin. In addition to their luggage, the missionaries brought various animals and four hives of bees. On the outbound voyage, Selwyn studied the Māori language with the help of a Māori boy returning from England and was able to preach in that language immediately on his arrival. He also acquired enough seamanship to enable him to be his own sailing master among the dangerous waters of the Pacific.Smith, pp. 36–45. In April 1842 the Tomatin arrived in Sydney.

The boat hit a rock on landing and, rather than wait for its repair, some of the party, including Selwyn and Cotton, set sail for New Zealand on the brig Bristolian on 19 May. They arrived in Auckland on 30 May.{{Cite news |date=30 May 1842 |title=Pioneer Bishop Selwyn Centennial |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WC19420530.2.35?items_per_page=10&page=2&query=Bishop+Selwyn |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20241226002620/https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WC19420530.2.35?items_per_page=10&page=2&query=Bishop+Selwyn |archive-date=26 December 2024 |access-date=26 December 2024 |work=Wanganui Chronicle |page=4 |via=Papers Past National Library of New Zealand |volume=86 |issue=125}}{{cite web |title= The Church Missionary Gleaner, February 1843 |work= Testimony of the Bishop of New Zealand as to the Progress of the Gospel in that Country|access-date=12 October 2015 |url= http://www.churchmissionarysociety.amdigital.co.uk/Documents/Images/CMS_OX_Gleaner_1843_02/8| publisher = Adam Matthew Digital}} After spending some time as guests of Captain William Hobson, the first Governor of New Zealand, Selwyn and Cotton set sail on 6 June on the schooner Wave to visit the mission stations on the Hauraki Gulf, then north to the Bay of Islands. where he arrived on 20 June.{{cite web |title= The Church Missionary Gleaner, August 1843 |work= New Zealand Mission - Extracts from Two Letters From the Bishop of New Zealand |access-date=12 October 2015 |url= http://www.churchmissionarysociety.amdigital.co.uk/Documents/Images/CMS_OX_Gleaner_1843_08/4 | publisher = Adam Matthew Digital}}Smith, pp. 56–65. Among the party was a clerk, William Bambridge, who was also an accomplished artist and was later to become photographer to Queen Victoria.{{cite web| title=William Bambridge (1819–1879) – Extract from Auckland Waikato Historical Journal No 41, Sep 1982| work=bambridge.org| url=http://www.bambridge.org/php/TNG5/showhistory.php?personID=I001&tree=BAMB01&ordernum=0| access-date=8 February 2008| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725041859/http://www.bambridge.org/php/TNG5/showhistory.php?personID=I001&tree=BAMB01&ordernum=0| archive-date=25 July 2011}}

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In June 1842, Selwyn set up residence at Te Waimate mission,{{cite book |last1= Bedggood |first1= W.E. |title=Brief History of St John Baptist Church Te Waimate|year=1971|publisher= News, Kaikohe }} some {{convert|15|mi|km|0}} inland from Paihia where the Church Missionary Society (CMS) had established a settlement 11 years earlier.Smith, pp. 65–66.

Some buildings at Waimate were converted for use by the College of St John the Evangelist, to teach theology to candidates for ordination. On 5 July 1842 Selwyn set out on a six-month tour of his diocese leaving the Mission Station in the care of Sarah, his wife, and Cotton. In November, Selwyn travelled on the brig Victoria down the west coast of the North Island to visit Octavius Hadfield at the Ōtaki mission and the mission at Whanganui; then up the east coast to visit William Williams. By October 1843, more missionaries had arrived at Waimate, and Selwyn, accompanied by Cotton, embarked on his second tour, this time to mission stations and native settlements in the southern part of North Island.{{cite web |title= The Church Missionary Gleaner, October 1843 |work= The Bishop of New Zealand’s Account of the Observance of the Lord’s Day in that Land |access-date=13 October 2015 |url= http://www.churchmissionarysociety.amdigital.co.uk/Documents/Images/CMS_OX_Gleaner_1843_10/1 | publisher = Adam Matthew Digital}} Their journey was made partly by canoe but mainly by walking, often for large distances over difficult and dangerous terrain. Part way through the tour Selwyn decided to split the party into two sections with one section led by himself and the other by Cotton. After being away for nearly three months, Cotton arrived back at Waimate early in 1844 and Selwyn returned a few weeks later.Smith, pp. 114–122

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Later in 1844 Selwyn decided to move some {{convert|160|mi|km|0}} south to Tāmaki near Auckland where he bought {{convert|450|acre}} of land, giving it the name of Bishop's Auckland. The party left on 23 October and arrived in Auckland on 17 November.Smith, pp. 134–135. The staff and students lived in huts at the head of the Purewa Creek which served as the port while the college was constructed upstream. The first buildings were built of scoria, with the kitchen / dining hall erected in 1846, but additional buildings were constructed in wood. The Collegiate Chapel was consecrated in 1847.{{cite web |title=Our History |url=https://www.stjohnscollege.ac.nz/our-history |website=St. John's College |access-date=27 May 2022}} During the first six months of 1845 Selwyn was away for much of the time and management of the settlement, and particularly the schools, fell to Cotton.Smith, p. 147. File:St John College and Chapel.jpg

The Bishop of New Zealand's seat was St Paul's Church, Auckland which served as Auckland's Cathedral for over 40 years, including the whole 28 years Selwyn had the role.{{cite web|url=http://www.auckanglican.org.nz/resources-and-links/our-history|title=History of the Diocese of Auckland|publisher=Anglican Diocese of Auckland|access-date=25 April 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://stpaulschurch.smugmug.com/SPAM/n-GmBLKc/St-Pauls-History-2009/|title=Where we've come from|access-date=25 April 2020|publisher=Kate Hannah (Research Development Manager, The University of Auckland) St Paul's Church, Auckland}}

Selwyn clashed with Archdeacon Henry Williams, the leader of the CMS in New Zealand, when he supported Governor George Grey's accusations of improper land purchases by Williams. Grey twice failed to recover the land in the Supreme Court, and when Williams refused to give up the land unless the charges were retracted, he was dismissed from the CMS in November 1849.{{cite book |last1= Rogers |first1= Lawrence M. |title= Te Wiremu: A Biography of Henry Williams|year=1973 |publisher=Pegasus Press }}{{cite book |last=Newman |first=Keith |title=Bible & Treaty, Missionaries among the Māori – a new perspective |year = 2010 |orig-year = 2010 |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0143204084 |pages=252–254}} However Selwyn later regretted the position he had taken and in 1854 Williams was reinstated to the CMS after the bishop lobbied for his return to membership.{{cite book |last1= Carleton |first1=Hugh |title= The Life of Henry Williams|year= 1874 |publisher= Early New Zealand Books University of Auckland Library|chapter= Appendix to Vol. II. |chapter-url= http://www.enzb.auckland.ac.nz/document?wid=1056&page=0&action=null }} The CMS missionaries held the low church beliefs that were common among Evangelical members of the Anglican Church. There was often a wide gap between the views of the CMS missionaries and the bishops and other clergy of the high church traditions of the Oxford Movement (also known as the Tractarians) as to the proper form of ritual and religious practice.{{cite web|first= Warren E.|last= Limbrick |title = Selwyn, George Augustus|year =1990|url= https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/1s5/selwyn-george-augustus|publisher= Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand|access-date=22 April 2019}} Selwyn held high church (Tractarian) views although he appointed CMS missionaries to positions in the Anglican Church of New Zealand including appointing William Williams as the first Bishop of Waiapu.{{cite book |last1=Williams |first1= William |title= The Turanga journals, 1840–1850|url= http://www.enzb.auckland.ac.nz/document?wid=3676&action=null |year=1974|publisher= F. Porter (Ed) Wellington |page=37}}

Bishop Selwyn's see was an early foundation in the series of colonial sees organised by the English church, and his organisation and government of his diocese proved of special importance. In six years he completed a thorough visitation of the whole of New Zealand, and in December 1847 began a series of voyages to the Pacific Islands, which were included in his diocese by a clerical error in his letters patent. His see should have been defined as lying between 34th and 50th degrees of south latitude.{{cite book | last =Boreham | first =Frank W. | title =George Augustus Selwyn: Pioneer Bishop of New Zealand | url =https://archive.org/details/georgeaugustusse00boreiala | year =1911 |page=44 }} The clerk drafted the boundaries as lying between 34th degrees of north latitude and 50th degrees of south latitude, which included islands to the north of New Zealand. At the time of his appointment, Selwyn was aware of this clerical error, but he chose not to point out the error.

His letters and journals descriptive of these journeyings through Melanesia present the reader with a vivid picture of his versatility, courage, and energy. In 1850 he formed the Australasian Board of Missions which led to the Melanesian Mission in the Western Pacific.{{cite book |last1= Lawrence |first1= David Russell |title= The Naturalist and his "Beautiful Islands": Charles Morris Woodford in the Western Pacific|date= October 2014|publisher=ANU Press |isbn=9781925022032|pages=142–146|chapter= Chapter 5 Liberalism, Imperialism and colonial expansion |chapter-url= http://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/p298111/pdf/ch053.pdf }} His voyages and the administrative work described below resulted in 1861 in the consecration of John Coleridge Patteson as the first Bishop of Melanesia.

Selwyn elaborated a scheme for the self-government of his diocese. In 1854 he visited England to secure authorisation to subdivide his diocese, as well as permission for the church of New Zealand to manage its own affairs by a "general synod" of bishops, presbyters, and laity. His addresses before the University of Cambridge produced a great impression. On his return to New Zealand four bishops were consecrated, two to the North Island and two to the South Island, and the legal constitution of the church was finally established. His diocese having been subdivided, letters patent were issued (dated 27 September 1858) appointing Selwyn metropolitan bishop over all the dioceses of New Zealand.[https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1127154521/findingaid#nla-obj-1379437614] (Series: Letters patent and other papers)First General Synod of the Branch of the United Church of England and Ireland in New Zealand ([https://kinderlibrary.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/2#idx83 p. 78], online at the Kinder Library){{Cite web|url=http://www.anglican.org.nz/Directory/Primates|title=Primates / Directory / Home - Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia}} The first general synod was held in 1859. Selwyn's constitution of the Anglican Church of New Zealand greatly influenced the development of the colonial church. By the time of the 1858 revision of the General Synod's constitution, his role as metropolitan had come to be called "the Primate"; that title was added to the constitution at that synod and remains today.Proceedings of the Fourth General Synod of the Branch of the United Church of England and Ireland in New Zealand ([https://kinderlibrary.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/5#idx539 p. 21], online at the Kinder Library)

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Selwyn was criticised by missioners in New Zealand like Thomas Grace, and by the CMS in London, including Henry Venn, for being ineffective in training and ordaining New Zealand teachers, deacons and priests – especially Māori. The CMS had funded half of his role on the condition that he ordain as many people as possible, but Selwyn slowed this down by insisting those in training learn Greek and Latin first. It would be 11 years until the first Māori deacon, Rota Waitoa, would be ordained by the Bishop at St Paul's, Auckland, and 24 years before he ordained a Māori priest. Selwyn was blamed for undermining the work of the CMS and damaging the enthusiasm Māori had for Christianity.{{cite book |last=Newman |first=Keith |title=Bible & Treaty, Missionaries among the Māori – a new perspective |year = 2010 |orig-year = 2010 |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0143204084 |pages=182, 257, 258, 259, 272, 273, 274, 305, 318, 319}}

Selwyn generally advocated for Māori rights and was often a critic of the unjust and reckless land acquisition practices that led to the New Zealand Wars. In April 1860, following a land dispute in Taranaki, Selwyn wrote to Henry Tancred, acting Colonial Secretary, protesting how premature the Government had been in declaring martial law against Te Ati Awa, claiming this tribe had been 'faithful and efficient allies of the Government'. In the letter he further held that military action should not have been engaged in before exploring 'civil power' to resolve the dispute, called for a full scale investigation and concluded that Māori deserved the government's 'respect and gratitude...[instead of]...bullets'.{{cite letter |first=G.A. |last=Selwyn |author= |author-link= |recipient=H.J. Tancred |subject=Protesting against the Government's premature declaration of martial law in Taranaki |language= |date=April 1860 |url= |format= |location=Great Britain Parliamentary Papers 1861 [2798] XLI, pp. 48-53. Quoted in: Stenhouse John, Religion, Politics and the New Zealand Wars 1860-1872, Chapter 1 in God and Government The New Zealand Experience, ISBN:1 877133 80 9, Adhar R. Stenhouse J.(Eds) University of Otago Press (2000)|page=25}}

However his support of the Invasion of the Waikato, where, as chaplain, he was frequently seen riding on horseback on the frontlines with the British and colonial forces,{{cite web|first= Vincent|last= O'Malley |title = Te Rohe Potae War and Raupatu| date =December 2010|url= https://forms.justice.govt.nz/search/Documents/WT/wt_DOC_791880/Wai%20898%2C%20A022.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211031110037if_/https://forms.justice.govt.nz/search/Documents/WT/wt_DOC_791880/Wai%20898%2C%20A022.pdf|archive-date=31 October 2021|publisher= Waitangi Tribunal|access-date=25 April 2020 |pages=115–119}} damaged his and the church's relationship with Māori, which is still felt today.{{cite book |last=Newman |first=Keith |title=Bible & Treaty, Missionaries among the Māori – a new perspective |year = 2010 |orig-year = 2010 |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0143204084 |page=300 & 304}}{{cite web|url= https://www.flickr.com/photos/e_james_bowman/albums/72157718540314792|title=Inglorious Dastards: Rangiaowhia raid and the 'great war for New Zealand'|date=6 March 2021|accessdate=6 March 2021|publisher=NZ Listener}} After an engagement which resulted in the deaths of women and children in a burning whare at Rangiaowhia on 21 February 1864, it was charged that the bishop had treacherously misled them into believing the village was a safe haven. Other stories claimed that Selwyn assisted in the massacre and blessed the troops involved. A pamphlet, Ngā minita i roto i te whawhai (The ministers involved in the war), contains Māori testimony which exonerates Selwyn and confirms his presence on the fateful day at Te Awamutu, where he rendered assistance to Māori casualties from nearby Hairini. His acute sense of duty, and his desire to bring compassion to both sides, blinded him to the ambiguity of his presence with the military. He was pained by these charges, and by the damage done to the standing of the church among Māori.https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/1s5/selwyn-george-augustus One historian has concluded that Selwyn "never recovered the trust he had earlier enjoyed".{{Cite book |last=Stenhouse |first=John |url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/press/books/god-government |title=God and Government The New Zealand Experience |date=2000 |publisher=University of Otago |isbn=1 877133 80 9 |editor-last=Ahdar |editor-first=John |location=Chapter 1 |chapter=Religion, Politics, and the New Zealand Wars 1860-1872 |access-date=27 December 2024 |editor-last2=Stenhouse |editor-first2=John |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240303133955if_/https://www.otago.ac.nz/press/books/god-government |archive-date=3 March 2024 |url-status=live}}{{rp |p=p.34}}

In 1867, Selwyn visited England a second time to participate at the first Pan-Anglican synod of the Lambeth Conference, an institution which his own work had done much to bring about. While in England Selwyn accepted, with much reluctance, the offer of the see of Lichfield.

Selwyn's election as the ninety-first Bishop of Lichfield was confirmed at St Mary-le-Bow on 4 January and he was enthroned at Lichfield Cathedral on 9 January 1868.[http://anglicanhistory.org/nz/blain_directory/directory.pdf p. 1378] Later that year, he paid a farewell visit to New Zealand and resigned that See (and the Primacy with it) on (or slightly before) 20 May 1869.{{Citation |last=Blain |first=Michael |title=Itinerary and Acta of George Augustus Selwyn Bishop of New Zealand |date=2006 |url=http://anglicanhistory.org/nz/selwyn/blain_acta.pdf |via=anglicanhistory.org |mode=cs1}}

He governed Lichfield until his death, aged 69, on 11 April 1878. Earlier that year, Bishop Selwyn had ordained a class of deacons, one of whom, John Roberts, is known for his missionary work in the Bahamas and Wyoming. Selwyn died at the Bishop's Palace, Lichfield, and was buried in the grounds of Lichfield Cathedral.[https://teara.govt.nz/en/1966/selwyn-george-augustus "Selwyn, George Augustus", Encyclopaedia of New Zealand, 1966]

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After his death, Selwyn College, Cambridge was founded to honour his contributions and life. Several other smaller educational facilities were also established, including Selwyn College, Otago (1893), Selwyn College, Auckland (1956) Selwyn College Honiara, Solomon Islands (1971){{Cite web|url=https://www.solomonstarnews.com/selwyn-college-unveils-50th-golden-jubilee-monument/|title=Selwyn College unveils 50th Golden Jubilee monument}} and Selwyn houses at King's School and King's College in Auckland, Wellesley College, Wellington and Wanganui Collegiate School in New Zealand. Denstone College near Uttoxeter named one of its school houses Selwyn in his honour.

The Selwyn Memorial Committee was founded in Spring 1878.

The college's first Master, Arthur Lyttelton, was elected on 10 March 1879, the Archbishop of Canterbury Archibald Tait was invited to become Visitor on 28 June 1878, and the college's founders purchased a six-acre (24,000 m²) farm land site between Grange Road, West Road and Sidgwick Avenue on 3 November 1879 at a cost of £6,111 9s 7d and the building of Old Court, as it is now known, began in 1880. The foundation stone of the college was laid by Edward Herbert, 3rd Earl of Powis in a ceremony on 1 June 1881. A Charter of Incorporation was granted by Queen Victoria on 13 September 1882, and the west range of Old Court was ready for use by the college's official opening (with the Master's installation) on 10 October 1882. Selwyn's first 28 undergraduates joined the original Master and twelve other Fellows at the then Public Hostel of the university in 1882. It became an Approved Foundation of the university in 1926, and was granted full collegiate status on 14 March 1958.{{cn|date=February 2023}}

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The college was founded with an explicitly Christian mission. Membership was initially restricted to baptised Christians. The foundation charter specified that the college should "make provision for those who intend to serve as missionaries overseas and... educate the sons of clergymen". The chapel was built in 1895 before the dining hall (in 1909), as it was deemed to be more important, and Chapel attendance was compulsory for students from the college's foundation until 1935. The college's coat of arms incorporates the arms of the Selwyn family impaled with a version of the arms of the Diocese of Lichfield.{{cn|date=February 2023}}

A portrait of the bishop by George Richmond belongs to St John's College, Cambridge.

The Selwyn family owned a large tract of land in Kew, Surrey, and a road built on it, leading from Kew Gardens station to Kew Gardens, was named Lichfield Road after the bishop.{{cite book|last=Blomfield|first=David|title=The Story of Kew|edition=2011|publisher=Leyborne Publications|page=30}}

Selwyn is honoured on the calendars of the Church of England and the Episcopal Church (United States) on 11 April.{{Cite web|title=The Calendar|url=https://www.churchofengland.org/prayer-and-worship/worship-texts-and-resources/common-worship/churchs-year/calendar|access-date=27 March 2021|website=The Church of England|language=en}}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W3e7DwAAQBAJ |title=Lesser Feasts and Fasts 2018 |date=1 December 2019 |publisher=Church Publishing, Inc. |isbn=978-1-64065-234-7 |language=en}}

The Selwyn River / Waikirikiri in the Canterbury Region of New Zealand is named in his honour, as are the associated Selwyn District (through which it runs) and settlement of Selwyn. In 1905, Selwyn Road in Epsom, Auckland was named in his honour.{{citeq|Q116775081|page=158}}

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Selwyn married Sarah Harriet Richardson, the only daughter of John Richardson on 25 June 1839. They had two sons, William, prebendary of Hereford, and John Richardson Selwyn, Bishop of Melanesia. John Selwyn later became the second Master of Selwyn College, Cambridge.

Selwyn was brother of Charles Jasper Selwyn, and of William Selwyn (1806–1875).

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Besides numerous sermons, letters, and charges, Selwyn was the author of:

• Are Cathedral Institutions useless? A Practical Answer to this Question, addressed to W. E. Gladstone, Esq., M.P., 1838; written in answer to an inquiry from Gladstone.
• Sermons preached chiefly in the Church of St John the Baptist, New Windsor, privately circulated, 1842.
• Letters to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel from the Bishop of New Zealand, with extracts from his Visitation Journals; printed in the society's series entitled Church in the Colonies, Nos. 4, 7, 8, 12 and 20.
• Verbal Analysis of the Holy Bible, intended to facilitate the Translation of the Holy Scriptures into Foreign Languages, 1855.

His papers for the period 1831–72 are stored in the archives of Selwyn College, Cambridge.{{Cite web |title=George Augustus Selwyn (1809-78), Bishop of New Zealand |url=http://www.sel.cam.ac.uk/library/archives/Selwyn-biography.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110616092057/http://www.sel.cam.ac.uk/library/archives/Selwyn-biography.html |archive-date=16 June 2011 |access-date=2011-07-03 |website=Selwyn College}}

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• {{cite book|last=Evans|first=J.H.|title=Churchman militant: George Augustus Selwyn,Bishop of New Zealand and Lichfield|year=1964|publisher=Allen & Unwin|pages=298}}
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• Henry William Tucker, Memoir of the Life and Episcopate of George Augustus Selwyn: Bishop of New Zealand, 1841–1869; Bishop of Lichfield, 1867–1878, 2 vols., William Wells Gardner, 1879.

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