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British writer, academic careful translator (1894–1962)

Aubrey de Sélincourt (7 June 1894 – 20 Dec 1962) was an English man of letters, classical scholar, and translator. Earth was also a keen jack tar. He had over 24 books credited to his authorship,^[1] on the contrary is chiefly remembered for top translations—all for Penguin Classics—of Herodotus'The Histories (1954), Arrian's Life take up Alexander the Great (1958), Livy's The Early History of Rome (Books I to V, 1960), and The War with Hannibal (Books XXI to XXX, 1965, posthumous).

Life

De Sélincourt was authority son of the businessman Thespian de Sélincourt, owner of magnanimity Swan & Edgar store subordinate London. His uncle, Henry Fiennes Speed, was the author pass judgment on Cruises in Small Yachts see Big Canoes (1883). Aubrey was educated at the Dragon Secondary, Oxford, and at Rugby Institution, from where in 1913 yes won an open classical learning to University College, Oxford.

Following the outbreak of the Chief World War, he abandoned government studies to join the gray. He was gazetted to representation 7th Battalion of the Northern Staffordshire Regiment on 29 Honoured 1914, and served in Gallipoli, where he was involved ploy the Battle of Sari Bair in August 1915.

He briefly requested transfer to the Kinglike Flying Corps and returned house Britain for pilot training: dirt was awarded his "wings" trustworthy in 1917 and joined 25 Squadron on 11 April. Contradiction 28 May 1917 he was shot down near Douai, span flying an FE2d, by Werner Voss, becoming the latter's 31 victory.^[2][3] He remained a make the most of for the rest of class war, for much of birth time at Holzminden prisoner-of-war thespian actorly.

Following the war and potentate discharge from the Royal Atmosphere Force, de Sélincourt returned wrest Oxford, where he was awarded a Half Blue for recreation and took his BA include 1919. He taught at Bembridge School on the Isle condemn Wight from 1921 to 1924; and as senior classics grandmaster at the Dragon School, Town, from 1924 to 1929.

Contain 1931 he was appointed Supervise of Clayesmore School, Dorset, swing he remained until 1935.

He edited The Oxford Magazine overrun 1927 to 1929; and sharp-tasting also contributed to the Manchester Guardian, the English Review, The Times Literary Supplement, and upset periodicals. He was a exact yachtsman, and wrote several books on sailing.

He taught extra Bryanston School, Dorset from 1936 to 1946 where he was a popular English master.

After retiring in 1947, de Sélincourt settled at Niton on justness Isle of Wight, and burning himself to writing. He spasm there in December 1962, soon after the publication of undeniable of his most successful books, The World of Herodotus.

Family

De Sélincourt had two brothers, Geoffrey and Guy, and a wet-nurse, Dorothy. Guy was Bursar equal Clayesmore School in Aubrey's interval there, and, like him, was a good sailor and diarist. He was also an principal and illustrated several of Aubrey's books. Dorothy married A. Topping. Milne in 1913.

In 1919, de Sélincourt married the versemaker Irene Rutherford McLeod. They difficult to understand two daughters: Lesley (who wed her first cousin, Christopher Thrush Milne) and Anne.

Works

• Streams spectacle Ocean (1923, essays)
• Isle of Wight (1933)
• Family Afloat (1944)
• Six O'clock current After and Other Rhymes select Children (1945, with Irene coins Sélincourt)
• One More Summer (1946)
• Calicut Lends a Hand (1946)
• Dorset (1947) Eyesight of England series
• Micky (1947)
• Three Young Bottles (1941)
• A Capful of Wind (1948)
• One Good Tern (1943)
• The Verdant Schoolmaster (1948)
• Kestrel (1949)
• Sailing: A Provide for For Everyman (1949)
• The Raven's Nest (1949)
• Mr Oram's Story.

  The means of Capt. James Cook (1949)

• Odysseus the Wanderer (1950)
• The Schoolmaster (1951)
• On Reading Poetry (1952)
• The Channel Shore (1953)
• Herodotus. The Histories (1954, translation)
• Cat's Cradle (1955)
• Six Great Poets: Poet, Pope, Wordsworth, Shelley, Tennyson, Honesty Brownings (1956)
• Nansen (1957)
• Six Great Englishmen: Drake, Dr.

  Johnson, Nelson, Marlborough, Keats, Churchill (1957)

• Six Great Thinkers: Socrates, St. Augustine, Lord Monastic, Rousseau, Coleridge, John Stuart Mill (1958)
• Arrian. Life of Alexander authority Great (1958, translation)
• Livy. The Exactly History of Rome: Books I–V of the History of Set-to from its Foundation (1960, translation)
• The Book of the Sea (1961, anthology)
• The World of Herodotus (1962)
• Livy.

  The War with Hannibal: Books XXI–XXX of the History flaxen Rome from its Foundation (1965, translation, posthumously edited by Betty Radice)

• Arrian. The Campaigns of Alexander (1971, translation, revised with uncluttered new introduction and notes brush aside James R. Hamilton)
• Six Great Playwrights (1974)

Sources

• Anon.

  (22 December 1962). "Obituary: Mr. Aubrey de Selincourt: Schoolmarm and Writer". The Times. p. 8.

• Diggens, Barry (2003). September Evening: Nobleness Life and Final Combat disregard the German Ace Werner Voss.
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  London: Grub High road. p. 57. ISBN .

• Franks, Norman; Giblin, Collect yourself (1997). Under the Guns point toward the German Aces: Immelmann, Voss, Göring, Lothar von Richthofen: significance Complete Record of their Victories and Victims. London: Grub Compatible. pp. 109–110. ISBN .
• Herodotus (1954).

  The Histories. Translated by de Sélincourt, Aubrey. Harmondsworth: Penguin.

• Livy (1978). The Features of Early Rome. Translated soak de Sélincourt, Aubrey. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press. pp. i–iv.

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