Charles Jasper Selwyn

Sir Charles Jasper Selwyn PC, QC (13 October 1813 – 11 August 1869), was an English lawyer, politician and Lord Justice of Appeal.

Selwyn was born at Church Row, Hampstead, Middlesex, the third and youngest son of William Selwyn (1775–1855), and brother of George Augustus Selwyn, Bishop of Lichfield, and of William Selwyn (1806–1875), divine. He was educated at Ealing, Eton, and Trinity College, Cambridge, of which he was successively scholar and fellow. He graduated B.A. 1836, M.A. 1839, and LL.D. 1862.

Selwyn was called to the Bar, Lincoln's Inn, on 27 January 1840, practised chiefly before the Master of the Rolls, and amassed a large fortune. He served as Commissary to the university of Cambridge from 1855 to 1868, became a Queen's Counsel on 7 April 1856, and in the same year was made a bencher of his inn. He entered parliament as member for Cambridge University in April 1859, and sat for that constituency until 1868. He was a staunch conservative and a churchman. He first spoke in the house on the address to the queen on arming the volunteer corps, and on 13 August 1859 made a speech on a question of privilege connected with the Pontefract election inquiry. In the same month he moved a resolution whereby the committee on the Stamp Duties Bill was enabled to introduce a clause extending probate duty to property exceeding one million in value, and a few months later secured the rejection of Lewis Llewelyn Dillwyn's Endowed Schools Bill.

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