Thomas Kynaston Selwyn
1812-1834
Thomas Kynaston Selwyn was born on 19th March 1812 in Hampstead. He attended Eton and on 8th January 1830 was admitted pensioner at Trinity. He was a scholar in 1832 and Craven Scholar in 1833, obtaining his BA and Chancellor’s (Classical) Medal in 1834. On his death in Chester on 5 July 1834 a Fellowship awaited him. He was buried in Chester Cathedral.
Information about Thomas Selwyn is recorded in Memoirs of Four Brothers by his sister Laetitia Selwyn (available via the Selwyn College website). He was very bright but unable to deal with the real world, and too trusting of other people who sought to take advantage of him. He had an intimate knowledge of racing form , although apparently he never visited a race meeting! Unfortunately there is no record of any portrait of him, although his three brothers were all painted by George Richmond.
He was an uncle of George Augustus Selwyn, the first Bishop of New Zealand, in whose memory Selwyn College, Cambridge was founded.
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IN MEMORIAM THOMÆ KYNASTON SELWYN A B SCHOLÆ ETONENSIS OLIM ALVMNI DEINDE HVJVSCE COLLEGII E DISCIPVLIS QVI MORTE SIBI MINVS QVAM SVIS IMMATVRA A TERRIS ADVOCATVS EST III. NON. JVL. A.D.M.DCCC.XXXIV ÆTATIS SVÆ XXII INGENIVM NON HVMILE ET LITERARVM AMOREM CASTITATE VITÆ SIMPLICITATE ANIMI ET PVDORE QVODAM SINGVLARI EGREGIE COMMENDAVIT HOC MARMOR PIETATIS TESTIMONIVM NOMINI LOCVM CONCEDENTE COLLEGIO PARENTES ET FRATRES AMANTISSIMI PONENDVM CVRAVERVNT IN ECCLESIA CATHEDRALI CESTRIENSI DEPOSITÆ SVNT RELIQVIÆ ΑΝΑΣΤΗΣΕΤAΙ TOMSON & SON. CAMB. |
In memory of Thomas Kynaston Selwyn, B.A., a pupil at Eton and then a Scholar of this College. He was called from this world, by a death less untimely for him than for his family, on 4th July 1834 at the age of twenty-one. His lofty intelligence and love of literature were complemented by a chaste life, a modest mind and an unusual sense of propriety. The College granted a space for his name to be commemorated, and his loving parents and brothers saw to the erection of this marble inscription as a memorial to his piety. He will rise again. [Carved by] Tomson & Son, Cambridge |
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