"LIEUTENANT-COLONEL WILLIAM SELBY, D.S.O., Bengal Medical Service, died at Lucknow on September 8th. He was born on June 16th, 1869, the son of the late Prideaux Selby, of Kowit, Croydon. He received his medical education at St. Bartholomew's Hospital and took the diplomas of M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P.Lond. in 1892, becoming F.R.C.S.Eng. in 1905. He entered the I.M.S. as Surgeon -Lieutenant,  Surgeon-Captain on July 28tlh, 1897, Major on July 28th, 1906, and Lieutenant-Colonel on July 28th, 1914. He served in the Chitral campaign of 1895, taking part in the relief of Chitral, and gaining the Frontier Medal with a clasp; on the north-west frontier of India in 1897-98, in the operations on the Samana range in August and September, 1897, and in the relief of Fort Gulistan, getting two more clasps; and in the Tirah campaign of 1897-98, where he was present in the actions of Chagru Kotal, Dargai, of the Sampagha and Arhanga passes, in the operations in the Waran Valley and action of November 16th, 1897, in the operations at and around Dwatoi and action of November 24tlh, 1897, in the operations against the Khanni Khel Chamkannis, and in the operations in the Bara Valley,December 7th to 14th, 1897. For these services he was mentioned in dispatches and received another clasp, as well as tlle D.S.O. He was appointed honorary surgeon to the Viceroy on April 15tll, 1910, and was the senior, in date of appointment, of the holders of that post. When the new King George's Medical College was opened at Lucknow a few years ago he was appointed principal of the college and professor of surgery." [Obituary in the British Medical Journal, 23rd September 1916]