The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Selwyn, Alfred Richard Cecil
Selwyn, Alfred Richard Cecil, C.M.G., LL.D., F.R.S., son of the Rev. Townsend Selwyn, Canon of Gloucester, was born in 1824 and educated in Switzerland. From 1845 to 1852 he was employed on the geological Survey of Great Britain, and from 1853 to 1869 was Director of the Geological Survey of Victoria. He then had a disagreement with the Government of that colony, and accepted the post of Director of the Canadian Geological and Natural History Survey and Museum, which he took up in 1870 and has held ever since. He married in 1852 Matilda Charlotte, daughter of Rev. Edward Selwyn, rector of Hemingford Abbotts, Hunts, and was created C.M.G. in 1886.