Selwyn Tillett

Selwyn Tillett is a retired Anglican priest living near Norwich. His interest in Robert Hay began while reading for a degree in Egyptology at Cambridge in the early 1970s, a decade before ordination. Egypt Itself is his only publication in this fi eld, though following other interests he has also published extensively for the Sir Arthur Sullivan Society on the pre-production and early performance history of the operas of Gilbert and Sullivan and their contemporaries. In 1990 he was one of the two co-discoverers of the ballet music from Gilbert and Sullivan’s first opera, Thespis, all the music from which was thought to have vanished. He is a frequent actor and director, and secretary to the management committee, for the Sewell Barn Theatre in Norwich.