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A genealogy of the Selwyn family
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1719 - 1769 (50 years)
Generation: 1
1. | Albinia Selwyn was born in 1719; died on 2 Apr 1769; was buried in Whiston, Northants. Notes:
Maid of Honour to Augusta Princess of Wales 1736-46
Albinia married William Irby, 1st Baron Boston on 26 Aug 1746 in Saint Anne Soho, Westminster, London, England. William was born on 08 Mar 1706/07; died on 30 Mar 1775. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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Generation: 2
3. | Frederick Irby (1.Albinia1) was born on 9 Jun 1749; died on 23 Mar 1825. Notes:
Adm. Fell.-Com. at ST JOHN'S, Oct. 8, 1767. Elder s. of William [1st] Baron Boston, of Middlesex [and Albinia, dau. of Henry Selwyn, of Matson, Gloucs.]. [B. June 9, 1749.] School, Eton. Matric. Easter, 1769; M.A. 1769. D.C.L., Oxford, July 8, 1773. F.S.A. Succeeded his father as 2nd Lord Boston, 1775. Lord of the Bedchamber, 1780-1825. Married, May 15, 1775, Christiana, dau. of Paul Methuen, of Corsham House, Wilts. Died Mar. 23, 1825, in Lower Grosvenor Street, London. Father of the next and of William A. (1801). A portrait of him by Romney is in the Provost's Lodge at Eton. (Al. Oxon.; Burke, P. and B., 1940; Eton Coll. Reg.; St John's Coll. Adm., III. 720, and IV. 326; G.E.C.; Thompson, Hist. of Boston, 397, which gives 'died Mar. 28.')
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