Edmund Selous

Edmund Selous
Born14 August 1857[1]
Regent's Park, London, England
Died25 March 1934(1934-03-25) (aged 76)[2]
Dorset, England
Occupations
RelativesFrederick Selous (brother)

Edmund Selous (14 August 1857 – 25 March 1934) was a British ornithologist and writer. He was the younger brother of big-game hunter Frederick Selous. Born in London, the son of a wealthy stockbroker, Selous was educated privately and matriculated at Pembroke College, Cambridge in September 1877. He left without a degree and was admitted to the Middle Temple just over a year later and was called to the bar in 1881. He practised as a barrister only briefly before retiring to pursue the study of natural history and literature.

Edmund married Fanny Margaret Maxwell (1863-1955) on 13 January 1886.[3] Fanny was the eldest daughter of the novelist Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915) and publisher John Maxwell (1824-1895).[4]

In 1888 they moved to Wiesbaden, German Empire and then to Mildenhall in Suffolk in 1889. In the 1920s, they moved to the Weymouth village Wyke Regis in Dorset, where they lived in Wyke Castle.[5]

  1. ^ K. E. L., Simmons. "Selous, Edmund (1857–1934), ornithologist and author". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37948. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ England & Wales, National Probate Calendar, 1934. "SELOUS Edmund of Lydwell Buxton-road Weymouth Dorsetshire died 25 March 1934 Probate London 26 June to Mary Braddon Frederica Whitehead Payne single woman. Effects £16217 13s. 11d." (via this link (access-date 2019-10-29).)
  3. ^ "Edmund Selous M, b. 1857, d. 25 March 1934". Greathead.org. 23 September 2016. Retrieved 14 July 2019.
  4. ^ "Fanny Margaret Maxwell". Sensationpress.com. Archived from the original on 12 May 2008. Retrieved 30 October 2019.
  5. ^ Hollings, D.F. (1997). "History of Wyke Regis (chapters 5-10)". Archived from the original on 11 June 2009. Retrieved 30 October 2019.