WILLIAM

See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

COURT

See also:

• GULLY, JOHN (1783-1863)

GULLY

See also:

• SELBY
• WILLIAM COURT GULLY SELBY

SELBY  , 1sT VISCOUNT (1835-1909), Speaker of the British House of Commons, was born on the 29th of August 1835, the son of Dr James Manby Gully of . Malvern . His grandfather was Daniel Gully, a Jamaican coffee-planter . , He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was president of the Union . He was called to the bar in 186o, went the northern circuit, and took silk in 1877 . In 188o and 1885 he unsuccessfully contested Whitehaven as a Liberal, but was elected for Carlisle in 1886, and continued to represent that constituency until his elevation to the peerage . In April 1895 he was elected Speaker by a majority of eleven votes over Sir Matthew White Ridley (cr . Viscount Ridley, 19o0), the Unionist nominee . In 1905 he resigned and was raised to the peerage with the title of Viscount Selby, the name being that of his wife, Miss Elizabeth Selby (d . 1906), whom he married in 1865 . He died on the 6th of November 1909, and was succeeded by his son, James William Herschell Gully (b . 1867) .