Basil de Sélincourt (19 August 1876 – 16 February 1966) was a British essayist and journalist."Basil de Selincourt (1877–1966), Journalist" UK National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 28 August 2013.
In 1900, de Sélincourt was an Acting Professor of Greek at the University of Sydney and from 1900-1901 served as President of the Sydney University Union (now the University of Sydney Union).
In 1902 he married the orientalist Beryl de Zoete, but the celibate marriage failed, and in 1908 he married the writer Anne Douglas Sedgwick (1873–1935)."Basil DE SELINCOURT / Anne Douglas SEDGWICK" Retrieved 28 August 2013. Basil de Sélincourt's third wife was Julia Sanford Chapin
De Sélincourt died in Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire in February 1966.
Works Giotto (1905) William Blake (1909)"William Blake; by Basil De Selincourt" HathiTrust Digital Library. Retrieved 28 August 2013. Walt Whitman A Critical Study (1914) The English Secret and Other Essays (1923)"THE ENGLISH SECRET, and Other Essays: By Basil de Selincourt" The Spectator. Retrieved 28 August 2013. The Religion of the Spirit (1927) Selected Poems of William Blake (1927) editor Pomona or the Future of English (1928) Towards Peace and Other Essays Critical or Constructive (1932) Enjoyment of Music (Hogarth Press) Anne Douglas Sedgwick: A Portrait in Letters (1936)
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