Edward Gordon Selwyn (6 July 1885 – 11 June 1959) was an English Anglican priest and theologian, who served as Warden of Radley College from 1913 to 1919; Rector of Red Hill, near Havant.
He wrote sermons and other books and was the editor of the liberal Anglo-Catholic journal Theology[1] during the first fourteen years of its existence, 1920–34.
Edward Carus Selwyn, Headmaster of Uppingham School (died 1918), and his wife Lucy Ada, née Arnold.
[8] An obituarist would write about his time as a TCF ‘... that service was more precious to him than any other distinction in life'[9] In 1931 Selwyn became Dean of Winchester, a post which he held until his retirement in 1958, his death following shortly after in 1959.
Although supported by several archbishops for promotion, his candidature failed to impress prime ministers who were then responsible for making the final recommendation to the Crown.
The problem centred on his perceived deficiencies in professional relationships, exemplified in correspondence between Archbishop Fisher and the Prime Minister regarding the vacancy at Bath & Wells in 1946.
[11] Thus, Selwyn was proposed for vacancies at Lincoln (1942 and 1946)[12] Bath and Wells (1943 and 1945),[13] Salisbury (1946),[14] Gloucester (1946)[15] and Hereford (1949)[16] but he was never recommended by a Prime Minister.
[6] After Phyllis Selwyn died in 1941 as the result of an accident,[10] he married a widow Mrs Barbara Williams (née Crow) in 1942.