Charles Jasper Selwyn

Sir Charles Jasper Selwyn PC (13 October 1813 – 11 August 1869) was an English lawyer, politician and Lord Justice of Appeal in Chancery.

[1] Selwyn was called to the Bar, Lincoln's Inn, on 27 January 1840, practised chiefly before the Master of the Rolls, and amassed a large fortune.

He first spoke in the house on the address to the queen on arming the volunteer corps,[2] and on 13 August 1859 made a speech on a question of privilege connected with the Pontefract election inquiry.

[12] Selwyn married, first, in 1856, Hester, fifth daughter of John Goldsborough Ravenshaw, chairman of the East India Company, and widow of Thomas Dowler, M.D.

He married, secondly, on 2 April 1869, Catherine Rosalie, daughter of Colonel Godfrey T. Greene, Royal Engineers, and widow of the Reverend Henry Dupuis, vicar of Richmond.