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Walford Selby
Sir Walford Selby KCMG CB CVO (19 May 1881 – 7 August 1965) was a British civil servant and diplomat.
==Career==
Walford Harmood Montague Selby was educated at Charterhouse School and Christ Church, Oxford, and joined the Diplomatic Service in 1904 as an attaché.〔(The London Gazette, 27 May 1904 )〕 He served in Berlin and The Hague where he was on the Secretariat of the Peace Conference in 1907. He returned to the Foreign Office in London in 1908. He was on the staff of Lord Rosebery when he made a special visit to Vienna to announce the accession of King George V in 1910. After that Selby was secretary to the committee preparing for George V's coronation, and was a Gold Staff Officer (assistant to the Earl Marshal) at the actual coronation in 1911. He was assistant private secretary to Sir Edward Grey, the Foreign Secretary, 1911–15, and private secretary to Lord Robert Cecil, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1915–18. He wanted to join the army but the Foreign Office would not release him until 1918 when he was able to join the Grenadier Guards shortly before the war ended.〔(Supplement to the London Gazette, 15 July 1919 )〕 He then returned to the Foreign Office and was First Secretary in the High Commission at Cairo 1919–22; Principal Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary 1924–32;〔(Ministers' Secretaries ), ''The Times'', London, 30 January 1924, page 12〕〔(Ministers' Secretaries ), ''The Times'', London, 13 June 1929, page 18〕 envoy to Austria 1933–37;〔(The London Gazette, 25 July 1933 )〕 and ambassador to Portugal 1937–40.〔(The London Gazette, 25 March 1938 )〕
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