Frederick Selwyn Copleston (1850–1935) was a member of the Indian Civil Service.
R. E. Copleston, Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford and Vicar of Edmonton.
After education at Marlborough College, Copleston joined the ICS in July 1873 and arrived in India in October 1873, when he was appointed Assistant Magistrate and Collector in Allahabad.
Copleston married Elizabeth Colley of Clontarf, of Dublin in 1883; she died in 1895.
He married secondly Norah Margaret Little, daughter of Colonel Colhoun-Little, MD, IMS, in 1902; they had two sons, one of whom was the Jesuit philosopher and theologian Frederick Charles Copleston.