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A genealogy of the Selwyn family
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| 12. |  John Sidney Augustus Selwyn was born on 17 Oct 1908 in Mussoorie W, India (son of Rev. Arthur Louis Henry Selwyn and Constance Annie Joseph); died in Mar 2000. Other Events:
- Census: 1911, Roedene, Uxbridge Rd., Hampton Hill, Middx
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Appointed to Indian Police, Officer-in-Charge, Police Training Centre, Hangu, North-West Frontier Province, 1939
Appointed to be His Majesty's Consul at Lisbon, 3rd Feb. 1951
Appointed to be First. Secretary (Commercial), Her Majesty's Embassy, Beirut, 1962
Appointed to be Her Majesty's Consul at Strasbourg, 18 Nov 1963
Appointed to be Her Majesty's Consul-General for the departments of Haut Rhin, Bas-Rhin, Moselle, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Vosges, Haute Saone, -Doubs, and the territory of Belfort, Meuse, Haute-Marne and Jura, to reside at Strasbourg, 1 May 1964
Capt in the Indian Police, having been sent down from Sandhurst for an unfortunate incident throwing another cadet in the lake. John told Richard Selwyn Sharpe this was the making of him as he fought in campaigns on the NW frontier in the late 1930s before joining the regular army in the war, where he fought in Burma with the Commandos.
John married Cicely Georgina Armour on 6 Jan 1932 in St. Mary's Church, Berkeley. Cicely (daughter of Rev. Canon Henry Crawford Armour and Georgina Theodosia Hughes) was born in 1909 in Berkeley; died in 2001. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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