George Selwyn (politician)

George Augustus Selwyn (11 August 1719 – 25 January 1791) of Matson House in Gloucestershire, England, was a Member of Parliament. A renowned eccentric with an affinity for macabre and cross-dressing, later described as "a necrophiliac, gay transvestite, [who] sat mute, loved, and undisturbed in the House of Commons for 44 years".

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