Sir Lewis Amherst Selby-Bigge, 1st Baronet KCB JP (3 April 1860 – 24 May 1951) was a British civil servant, barrister, and scholar who was Permanent Secretary at the Board of Education between 1911–1925.

[1] Selby-Bigge was born at Oakwood House in Beckenham, Kent, the second son of Charles Selby Bigge JP, of Longhorsley, Northumberland, and Katharina Ogle.

[5] In the 1919 New Year Honours,[6] Sir Amherst was created a baronet, of King's Sutton, in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom, effective 14 February 1919.

[7] In the 1929 general election, he unsuccessfully stood for the Combined English Universities constituency as Unionist Party candidate.

On 15 September 1886, Selby-Bigge married Edith Lindsay Davison, OBE, daughter of late Right Hon.