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
The Library of Virginia
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