Basil De Selincourt

Basil de Sélincourt (19 August 1876 – 16 February 1966) was a British essayist and journalist. In 1900, de Sélincourt was an Acting Professor of Greek at the University of Sydney and from 1900-1901 served as President of the Sydney University Union (now the University of Sydney Union). In 1902 he married the orientalist Beryl de Zoete, but the marriage failed, and in 1908 he married the writer Anne Douglas Sedgwick (1873–1935). Basil de Sélincourt's third wife was Julia Sanford Chapin