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English: Bookplate of John Strangeways Donaldson Selby (d.24 July 1860, per memorial window in Lindisfarne Church[1]). Shortly before 1868 the lord of the manor and chief landowner of Lindisfarne Island, Northumberland, was John Strangeways Donaldson Selby (National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland, 1868[2]) of Cheswick House and Lindisfarne Priory, co. Northumberland, a Magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant for cos. Durham and Northumberland, and for the borough of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and Deputy Vice-Admiral of the Coast of Northumberland from Bamburgh Castle to Berwick-upon-Tweed. He married Mary Dorothy Grey (1797-1889) (buried St Aidan Churchyard, Bamburgh, Northumberland[3]) eldest daughter of Robert Grey of Shareston, Northumberland. (A Naval Biographical Dictionary by William Richard O'Byrne, biography of Selby, Henry Donaldson[4]). Arms, 1st & 4th grand quarter: Selby (Barry of eight sable and or(Burke's General Armory, 1884, p.911)) quartering Donaldson of Scotland (Or, an eagle with two heads displayed sable surmounted of a lymphad of the second (Burke's General Armory, 1884, p.291)); 2&3: Strangways (Sable, two lions passant paly of six argent and gules). He was born as "John Strangeways Donaldson", the son of Thomas Donaldson of Cheswick (son of James Donaldson (1702-1763) and Catherine Strangeways (1716-1762), a daughter and eventual sole heiress of Christopher Strangways (d.1734) of Cheswick (pedigree of the Cheswick, Strangeways and Donaldson families of Cheswick, Northumberland[5]) by his wife Mary Selby, sister of Henry Collingwood Selby (d.1839). Henry Collingwood Selby settled his property on Lindisfarne Island in trust for the use of John Strangeways Donaldson and his male heirs, on condition that he should adopt the surname Selby. (https://www.islandshirearchives.org.uk/content/catalogue_item/holy-island/photocopies-of-title-deeds-to-houses-and-land-on-holy-island-and-deeds-relating-to-the-manor-lease-1572-1876/copies-of-deeds-relating-to-the-holy-island-property-of-john-strangeways-donaldson-selby-and-his-younger-son-william-derenzy-donaldson-selby-1851-1857)