Selwyn
GEORGE AUGUSTUS, an English bishop; born April 5, 1809; was educated at Eton and at Cambridge; rowed in the first inter-university boat race (1829); and was a great pedestrian and swimmer, athletic powers found very serviceable in after life. In 1841, while curate of Windsor, he was consecrated first and only Bishop of New Zealand and Melanesia-now divided into seven On the voyage out he studied sees.
Maori and navigation. He visited every portion of his huge diocese before setting about his great work of organizing it..
A visit to England in 1854 brought back John Coleridge Patteson, afterward the martyred Bishop of Melanesia, to whose see Bishop Selwyn's second son was con- SEMAPHORE secrated in 1877. In 1867 Bishop Selwyn attended the first Pan-Anglican Synod at Lambeth, and against his own inclinations was appointed Bishop of Lichfield -the see of the Black Country-where on his initiative the first Diocesan Conference in which the laity were duly represented met in 1868, and where he died, April 11, 1878.