Selwyn, William, 1806-1875

found: The creeds of Nicaea, Constantinople, Athanasius, 1873:t.p. (William Selwyn, D.D., canon of Ely Cathedral, Lady Margaret's reader in theology, Cambridge)

found: Wikipedia, April 2, 2021(William Selwyn (astronomer); William Selwyn, FRS, FRAS (19 February 1806--24 April 1875) was a Church of England clergyman, canon of Ely Cathedral, Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity, and amateur astronomer; he was the eldest surviving son of William Selwyn (1775-1855) and his wife Laetitia, daughter of Thomas Kynaston of Witham, Essex; he was one of four brothers, the most famous being George Augustus Selwyn (1809-1878), the first Anglican bishop of New Zealand, and after whom Selwyn College, Cambridge, was named; Selwyn was ordained as a deacon of the Church of England in 1829 and as a priest in 1831; he was appointed Rector of Branston, Leicestershire in 1831, Vicar of Melbourn, Cambridgeshire, in 1846 and Canon Residentiary of Ely in 1833, serving in that capacity until 1875; he was also Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity at Cambridge from 1855 until his death in 1875; he became Honorary Joint Curator of the Library of Lambeth Palace in 1872)