George Selwyn (bishop of Tinnevelly)


George Theodore Selwyn was an eminent priest in the middle part of the 20th century.
He was educated at St Lawrence College, Ramsgate and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. After a curacy at St Matthew’s Church, Bayswater he emigrated to India as a CMS missionary, eventually becoming Principal of St John’s College, Palamcottah and then Bishop of Tinnevelly in 1945. He retired in 1953 and died four years later.