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Hugh De Sélincourt
1878–1951
Best remembered for a wonderfully vivid cricket novel, this English writer and journalist brought village life, wit, and quiet observation to everything he wrote. His books often return to the fictional Sussex world of Tillingfold, a setting that gave his work its warm, distinctive charm.
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Great Ralegh
by Hugh De Sélincourt
About the author
Hugh de Sélincourt was an English author and journalist, born on 15 June 1878 and died on 20 January 1951. Reliable reference sources describe him as being chiefly remembered for The Cricket Match (1924), and note that he was educated at Dulwich College and University College, Oxford.
Before becoming known for his fiction, he worked in journalism during the 1910s, serving first as drama critic of the Star and later as literary critic of the Observer. His writing is often associated with the recurring fictional village of Tillingfold, a setting linked in reference sources to Storrington in Sussex.
Although not as widely read now as some of his contemporaries, he has continued to attract interest for the freshness of his storytelling and for his place in early 20th-century English literary life. I couldn't confirm a suitable portrait image from the source pages I checked, so no profile image is included.