Ernest de Sélincourt

Ernest de Sélincourt (1870–1943) was a British literary scholar and critic,[1] the eldest son of Charles Alexandre De Sélincourt and Theodora Bruce Bendall.

After a distinguished career at Oxford, he became a Professor of English at Birmingham.

[2] His papers are held at the University of Birmingham Special Collections.

De Sélincourt went to France in March 1917 as a professor with the YMCA and this service is duly recorded in the First World War medal rolls.

He married Ethel Shawcross in 1896 in the Battle, Sussex, registration District.