His collaboration with his old University colleague Yeatman, who was also writing for Punch, appears to have begun in 1928 during his period out of teaching.
Sellar had begun to contribute to Punch in 1925 when three humorous short stories of his were published (he also contributed to other journals around this time). He wrote melancholy poetry in addition to dry humour. Although the two produced brilliant work together, they were entirely different personalities: Sellar was somewhat shy and introverted, although he enjoyed acting. It was at Oriel that he met his contemporary Yeatman, and struck up a lifelong friendship.
After serving briefly in World War I as a Second Lieutenant in the King's Own Scottish Borderers, he took a degree in modern history at Oriel College, Oxford (which, as recorded in 1066 and All That, was awarded through an aegrotat in 1922). He won a scholarship to Fettes College where he was Head Boy in 1917.
Sellar was born at Golspie in Sutherland. He is best known for the 1930 book 1066 and All That, a tongue-in-cheek guide to "all the history you can remember," which he wrote together with R. OL8088833W Page_number_confidence 90.91 Pages 134 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.18 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20201209160435 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 343 Scandate 20201209072935 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 0140014241 Tts_version 4.Walter Carruthers Sellar was a Scottish humourist who wrote for Punch. Urn:lcp:1066allthatmemor0000unse:epub:acda764e-c9b9-460f-b9eb-47a7d38e7edb Foldoutcount 0 Identifier 1066allthatmemor0000unse Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t7qp5xf3g Invoice 1652 Isbn 0140014241ĩ780140014242 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.8 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA13676 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 09:37:43 Associated-names Sellar, Walter Carruthers Yeatman, Robert Julian Reynolds, John Boxid IA40011903 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
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