Christopher Selby 1675-1734
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Christopher SELBY 1675-1734
Biographical Note
Son of Michael Selby of Castor, Northamptonshire, gentleman. BA Pembroke College, Cambridge 1697, fellow 1698, MA 1700, bursar 1710, junior proctor 1715-16. Curate of Marham, Northampstonshire 1698, of Framlingham, Suffolk 1704; vicar of Grantchester 1707-16, of Waresley, Huntingdonshire 1718-29, rector of Framlingham, Suffolk 1728.
Books
Selby used an engraved armorial bookplate (Franks 26432); the extent and disposition of his library are not known. His brief will has no mention of books, and his entire estate was left to Mrs Philippa Lany of Cambridge.
Sources
- Will of Christopher Selby, The National Archives PROB 11/668/210.
- Gambier Howe, E. R. J. Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the ... British Museum. London, 1903.
- Venn, J. and J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge, 1922.