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 > The Library of Virginia > [log in to unmask] > > Visit the Library of Virginia's web site at http://www.lva.lib.va.us > > To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions > at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html