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SELBY, WILLIAM COURT GULLY

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 599 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SCY-SHA
SELBY, WILLIAM COURT GULLY , 1sT VISCOUNT (1835-1909),
Speaker
  of the British
House
  of Commons, was born on the 29th of August 1835, the son of Dr James Manby Gully of. Malvern. His grandfather was Daniel Gully, a Jamaican coffee-planter. , He was educated at Trinity College,
Cambridge
 , where he was president of the
Union
 . He was called to the bar in 186o, went the northern circuit, and took silk in 1877. In 188o and 1885 he unsuccessfully contested Whitehaven as a Liberal, but was elected for
Carlisle
  in 1886, and continued to represent that constituency until his
elevation
  to the peerage. In April 1895 he was elected
Speaker
  by a
majority
  of eleven votes over Sir
Matthew
  White Ridley (cr. Viscount Ridley, 19o0), the Unionist nominee. In 1905 he resigned and was raised to the peerage with the title of Viscount Selby, the name being that of his wife, Miss Elizabeth Selby (d. 1906), whom he married in 1865. He died on the 6th of November 1909, and was succeeded by his son, James William Herschell Gully (b. 1867).


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