Ernest de Selincourt

Ernest de Selincourt, 1870-1943, scholar and literary critic; educated at Dulwich and University College, Oxford; where he obtained a second class in Literae Humaniores, 1894. Selincourt became a university lecturer in English in 1899, was Professor of English at University of Birmingham, 1908-1935 and Vice-Principal at Birmingham, 1931-1935. Selincourt edited the works of Keats, Spenser, and William and Dorothy Wordsworth; was Professor of Poetry at Oxford, 1928-1933, and was made a Fellow of the British Academy in 1927.

Reference: The Dictionary of National Biography: The Concise Dictionary, Part II (Oxford University Press,Oxford, 1961 ).

For further reading about the University of Birmingham see: Eric Ives, Diane Drummond, Leonard Schwarz The First Civic University: Birmingham 1880-1980 An Introductory History (The University of University of Birmingham Press. 2000).

From the guide to the University of Birmingham Staff Papers: Papers of Ernest de Selincourt, 1926-1947, (University of Birmingham Information Services, Special Collections Department)