Selwyn

Selwyn, GEORGE AUGUSTUS (1809-78), first Bishop of New Zealand, was the son of an eminent lawyer, was educated at Eton and Cambridge, and ordained curate of Windsor in 1833. In 1841, when the episcopacy was extended to the colonies, he obtained the see of New Zealand, and worked there most arduously and successfully so that in 1867 his colony was subdivided into seven dioceses. He soon after became Bishop of Lichfield. His Verbal Analysis of the Holy Bible appeared in 1855, and several volumes of his sermons have also been published. A biography of him came out in 1879.