George Augustus Selwyn

George Augustus Selwyn (born April 5, 1809, Hampstead, London—died April 11, 1878, Lichfield, Staffordshire, Eng.) was the first Anglican bishop of New Zealand. Selwyn was educated at Eton and St. John’s College, Cambridge. In 1833 he was ordained a deacon and became a curate at Windsor. He was made bishop of New Zealand in 1841. He learned to preach in Maori and to sail his own vessel among the islands that were included in his...