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John Selden

John Selden
John Selden, English jurist and scholar (d. 1654)

John Selden was an English jurist, a scholar of England's ancient laws and constitution and scholar of Jewish law. He was known as a polymath; John Milton hailed Selden in 1644 as "the chief of learned men reputed in this land".

16 December 1584

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