William Young Sellar

William Young Sellar FRSE LLD (22 February 1825 – 12 October 1890) was a Scottish classical scholar.

He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy 1832 to 1839 (dux in his final year) and afterwards studied classics at the University of Glasgow.

[1] Sellar was one of the most brilliant of 19th century classical scholars, and was remarkably successful in his endeavours to reproduce the spirit rather than the letter of Roman literature.

[citation needed] In 1864 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer being Alexander Campbell Fraser.

[2] He died at Kenbank, St John's Town of Dalry in Kirkcudbrightshire on 12 October 1890.