William Selwyn (bishop)
William Marshall Selwyn was an Anglican suffragan bishop in the 20th century.
Selwyn was born into an ecclesiastical family, the second son of the Reverend Sydney Augustus Selwyn, of Boscombe vicarage, Bournemouth, and Ellen Blake. He was educated at Haileybury and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, before beginning his ordained ministry as a curate at All Saints' South Lambeth. Following this he was chaplain to the London Irish Rifles then of the British Embassy Church, Paris. Incumbencies as vicar at Holy Trinity, Bournemouth and Brompton, London followed before becoming the Archdeacon of Bath. He was also Rector of St Anne and St Agnes, Gresham Street In 1947 he was ordained to the episcopate as the second Bishop of Fulham, a post he was to hold for only two years. He died on 29 September 1951.
