David Selbourne, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

David Selbourne

British philosopher

Date of Birth: 04-Jun-1937

Place of Birth: London

Profession: writer, historian, journalist, philosopher

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

David Selbourne (born 4 June 1937) is a British political philosopher, social commentator and historian of ideas.
He was educated at Manchester Grammar School, and Balliol College, Oxford, where he studied Jurisprudence, held the Winter Williams Law Scholarship, and was awarded a Paton Studentship and the Jenkins Law Prize.
He was thereafter a British Commonwealth Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School, and in 1960 was called to the bar of the Inner Temple where he was student scholar, but did not practise law.
He is the father of Raphael Selbourne, winner of the 2009 Costa First Book Award.