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3 unusual facts about Selwyn


Eden Valley, New Zealand

The building was built in 1865 and was originally a Selwyn Church, known as St Sepulchre’s.

Selwyn, Ontario

In Paul Nicholas Mason's novel Battered Soles (2005), Lakefield is the site of a pilgrimage, begun in July 1997, which sees thousands of pilgrims from all over the world walk from Peterborough along the Rotary Greenway Trail to St. John's Anglican Church in the village.

Paul Reddick, Canadian blues-rock artist, songwriter, and harp player


Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn

Selwyn Rock (an exposed Permian glacial pavement) at Inman Valley in South Australia, Selwyn Range in the Canadian Rockies and Selwyn Street in Hackett, a suburb of the Australian Capital Territory are named after him.

Clare Clifford

She attended Selwyn Independent School for Girls in Matson, Gloucester, then studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama and appeared on stage at the Oxford Playhouse and the National Theatre.

Edgar Selwyn

The Selwyns owned several theatres in the United States including the Park Square Theatre in Boston; the Hanna Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio; the Selwyn in Chicago; and the Selwyn, Apollo, and Times Square theatres in New York City.

George Brodrick, 3rd Viscount Midleton

Brodrick married on 1 May 1752 Albinia, the daughter of the Hon Thomas Townshend by Albinia (daughter of John Selwyn of Matson, Gloucestershire).

Ground Zero Gallery

These shows included many other notable artists including: Stephen Lack, Manuel De Landa, Joseph Nechvatal, Kiki Smith, Walter Robinson, Julius Klein, Nick Zedd, Thom Corn, Mark and Matt Enger, Conrad Vogel, Phoebe Legere, Cheryl Dyer, Selwyn Garaway.

Lizzy the Lezzy

Lizzy also has friends called Kate the Straight, Nic the Bi-Chick Danny the Tranny and Stan the Macho Man, and these characters all appear in a book written and produced by Selwyn entitled "Lizzy the Lezzy Gets Laid".

New Zealand general election, 1981

In Selwyn, Ruth Richardson successfully challenged the re-nomination of incumbent Colin McLachlan, and in Whangarei, John Banks successfully challenged the re-nomination of incumbent John Elliott.

Norman Biggs

Biggs also played cricket for Glamorgan and in 1893 was part of a team that took on Cardiff in a two-day match; he faced his brother Selwyn, who was a member of the Cardiff team.

Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt!

Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt! was a popular ITV situation comedy that ran from 1974 to 1977.

Oscar Cook

Si Urag of the Tail (Hutchinson's Adventure-Story Magazine, January 1923; Weird Tales, July 1926; You'll Need A Night Light, ed. Christine Campbell Thompson Selwyn & Blount September 1927; A Century Of Creepy Stories, Hutchinson 1934; 50 Strangest Stories Ever Told, Odhams, 1937; Still Not At Night, Arrow 1962, Creepy Stories Bracken 1994)

Boomerang (Switch on the Light Selwyn & Blount, 1931; A Century of Creepy Stories, Hutchinson, 1934; The Second Pan Book of Horror Stories, Pan, 1960; Creepy Stories, Bracken, 1994. Dramatised by Rod Serling as the Night Gallery television series episode "The Caterpillar", first broadcast 1 March 1972)

Peter Gummer, Baron Chadlington

Peter Selwyn Gummer, Baron Chadlington FCIPR FIoD FCinstM FRSA (born 24 August 1942) is an English businessman.

Ren Ng

In 2013 he was awarded the Royal Photographic Society's Selwyn Award given to those under the age of 35 years who have conducted successful science based research connected with imaging.

Sel Belsham

Selwyn Eric Belsham is a New Zealand former rugby league player who represented his country in the 1957 World Cup.

Selwyn Baptiste

Born in La Romaine, near San Fernando in the south of Trinidad, Selwyn Baptiste moved to Britain at the age of 24, in 1960, having that year won the title of "Best Pan Soloist" at the Trinidad Carnival.

Selwyn Hughes

Selwyn Hughes (27 April 1928 - 9 January 2006) was a Welsh Christian minister best known for writing the daily devotional Every Day with Jesus.

Selwyn Selwyn-Clarke

At the time of Selwyn-Clarke's arrest, his wife and daughter were taken to Stanley Internment Camp on the Stanley Peninsula.

Times Square Theater

Battling Butler, the basis for the Buster Keaton film of the same name, transferred from the Selwyn to the Times Square in 1924.

Yung Warriors

Tjimba Possum Burns and Narjik Day Burns are sons of Selwyn Burns (Coloured Stone, Mixed Relations, No Fixed Address and Blackfire) and Tjimba Possum Burns and Danny Ramzan are the grandsons of Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri


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