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English ornithologist, botanist and natural history artist

Prideaux John Selby
Born	(1788-07-23)23 July 1788 Alnwick, Northumberland, England
Died	27 March 1867(1867-03-27) (aged 78) Bamburgh, Northumberland, England
Occupation	ornithologist, botanist, artist
Nationality	British

Prideaux John SelbyFRSEFLS (23 July 1788 – 27 March 1867) was an English ornithologist, botanist and natural history artist.

Life

Selby was born in Bondgate Street in Alnwick in Northumberland, the eldest son of George Selby of Beal and Twizell (d.1804),^[1] and his wife, Margaret Cook.

Prideaux John Selby ( - ) was active/lived in England, United Kingdom.

Note: Prideaux John Selby was a contemporary of John James Laforest Audubon (American, ), perhaps the best known ornithological printmaker in history.

He joined the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club soon after it was founded in and served as its president in and again in Between 18he.

Plates to Selby's Illustrations of British Ornithology, 2 vol.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

He was educated at Durham School.^[2]

He studied at University College, Oxford. He succeeded in 1804 to the family estates at Beal, and added to the landholdings there at a cost of some £14000 in about 1840.

He sold the Beal estate amounting to 1,450 acres (590 ha) in 1850 for £47000 (£6,348,000 at today's prices).

He died at Twizell Ho