a resident of the Duchy of Milan. He constructed for her use a Roman Catholic chapel in the attic of Matson House, which survives. Maria became one of the wealthiest heiresses in Britain, having inherited a large part of the estate of her natural father the Duke of Queensberry, the eighth richest man in Britain. Death and burial He died unmarried in 1791 and was buried in the Selwyn vault at St. Katherine's Church at Matson on 6 February 1791. The vault has since been filled in and the brass plate from his coffin is now affixed on a wall inside the church. He left his estate to his adopted daughter Maria Fagnani, Marchioness of Hertford. Portraits George Augustus Selwyn and Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle (c.1770) by Sir Joshua Reynolds is in the possession of the present Earl of Carlisle at Castle Howard, Yorkshire. George Augustus Selwyn at the age of fifty-one by Hugh Douglas Hamilton, a pastelle drawn in 1770. This drawing is also in the possession of the Earl of Carlisle at Castle Howard. George Augustus Selwyn (1776) by Sir Joshua Reynolds was displayed at the Tate Gallery between 26 May and 18 September 2005 in the exhibition Joshua Reynolds: The Creation of Celebrity Further reading History of Parliament: House of Commons 1754–1790, by Sir Lewis Namier and James Brooke (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1964) Jesse, John Heneage, George Selwyn and his contemporaries, London : Bickers & Son, 1882, 2nd ed.; 1st edition, 1843–1844 George Selwyn; his letters and his life, edited by E.S. Roscoe and Helen Clergue, London, 1899. Sherwin, Oscar, A gentleman of wit and fashion: the extraordinary life and times of George Selwyn, New York : Twayne Publishers, (1963). George Augustus Selwyn (1719–1791) and France : unpublished correspondence, edited by Rex A. Barrell, Lewiston, N.Y., USA : E. Mellen Press, (c. 1990). The Ghosts of Piccadilly, Chapters IV & XIV, by G. S. Street, London: Constable & Company Ltd. The Age of Scandal, Chapter named The Necrophilist by T.H. White References External links George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life, E. S. Roscoe and Helen Clergue eds., London, 1899 George Selwyn and the Wits, S. Parnell Kerr, London, 1909 1719 births 1791 deaths People educated at Eton College Alumni of Hart Hall, Oxford Members of the Inner Temple Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies Members of Parliament for Gloucester British