The Parish Church of St John-at-Hampstead

George Augustus SELWYN

  • Grave/memorial: CH 40

Born: 1809 Died: 1878 Grave / memorial: CH040
First Bishop of New Zealand and 90th Bishop of Lichfield, where he died; he was born in Church Row. Selwyn College Cambridge was erected in his memory by public subscription in 1882. He and his two distinguished brothers are commemorated on a piscina in the Lady Chapel

Reference: Buried in Hampstead, Camden History Society 1986