Brent,
    I was saddened to hear of the death of the person who shares my name.  I had
hoped to cross paths with him someday.

John G. Selby
Roanoke College

Brent Tarter wrote:

> Dr. John E. Selby, recently retired professor of history at the College of
> William and Mary, died of cancer at his home in Williamsburg on Wednesday,
> 21 March 2001.
>
> John was a friend and mentor and advisor to many Virginia historians in
> addition to his own distinguished graduate students. He was a teacher, but
> he also served as assistant director of research at Colonial Williamsburg
> Foundation, twice as chair of the history department at William and Mary, as
> graduate dean of the college, and for many years as book review editor of
> the William and Mary Quarterly.
>
> Students of Virginia's history who did not know John Selby personally
> certainly know his book, The Revolution in Virginia, 1775-1783
> (Charlottesville, 1988).
>
> A Bostonian by birth, John Selby lived in Williamsburg from 1961 to 2001, a
> Virginia gentleman with a new England accent.
>
> Brent Tarter
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