Lydia Sellon or Priscilla Lydia Sellon was an English founder of an Anglican women's order.
11 Facts About Lydia Sellon
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Priscilla Lydia Smith was brought up in Grosmont in Monmouthshire, but she was born on 21 March 1821 in Hampstead.
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Lydia Sellon's mother died when she was a small child.
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Lydia Sellon contacted Edward Bouverie Pusey whom she knew and he introduced her to a local clergyman.
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Lydia Sellon and Catherine Chambers who was a family friend took advice from the local clergy and they worked in a local school.
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Lydia Sellon started work in Devonport looking after the poor.
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Lydia Sellon led the new Society of the Most Holy Trinity from 1856 and by 1860 they had the first purpose built convent, Ascot Priory, built for the new order.
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The cost of this new building was said to be largely borne by Dr Pusey but another source considers that it was Lydia Sellon who paid the bills.
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Queen Emma and Lydia Sellon helped four Hawaiian girls to be educated at Ascot: Palemo Kekeekaapu, Elizabeth Keomailani Crowningburg, Kealakai and Manoanoa Shaw.
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Keomailani and Manoanoa came to England in 1867 after Lydia Sellon's visit to Hawaii to found St Andrew's Priory.
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Lydia Sellon died in West Malvern in 1876 following fifteen years of being paralysed.