A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Selby, Henry Donaldson
SELBY. (Lieutenant, 1847.)
Henry Donaldson Selby, born 24 Nov. 1825, is second son (by Mary Dorothy, eldest daughter of Robt. Grey, Esq., of Shareston, co. Northumberland) of John Strangeways Donaldson Selby, Esq., of Cheswick House and Lindisfarne Priory, co. Northumberland, a Magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant for cos. Durham and Northumberland, and for the borough of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and Deputy Vice-Admiral of the Coast of Northumberland from Bamburgh Castle to Berwick-upon-Tweed. This officer passed his examination 11 Jan. 1845; was appointed 2 April following, and 22 Oct. 1846, Mate of the Excellent gunnery-ship at Portsmouth, Capt. Henry Ducie Chads, and Thetis 36, Capt. Henry John Codrington, attached to the Channel squadron; obtained his commission 17 April, 1847; and has been serving, since 28 Aug. in that year, at the Cape of Good Hope and in the East Indies in the Arab 12, Capt. Wm. Morris.