Ernest de selincourt biography of christopher

The de Selincourt Family were advocates and supporters of homeopathy in the mid 19th Century, the family wives and daughters taking part in fundraising events to support homeopathy, alongside Robert Grosvenor 1st Baron Ebury, and the wives and daughters of George Calvert Holland, Henry William Paget Marquess of Anglesey, Alfred Crosby Pope, The Rosher Family, Charles Edwin Wheeler, James John Garth Wilkinson, Stephen Yeldham, and many others,

The father Martin was a successful businessman, owning the Swan & Edgar store in London.

The Selincourt Family were related to Alan Alexander Milne, and knew William Wordsworth and Dorothy Wordsworth,

Aubrey de Selincourt 1894 – 1962 was an English writer, classical scholar and translator,

Educated at the Dragon School and Rugby School, he won an open classical scholarship to University College, Oxford.

He is best known for his translations (all for Penguin Classics) of Livy’s The Early His