sentences:  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.Born in London, he is the son of French-born doctor, Henri Armand Hugh Selbourne, educated at St. Barts and a Belgian mother (Sulamith (Amiel) Selbourne) – a descendant of generations of Jewish thinkers and rabbinical scholars and, in a cognate line, sharing an ancestry with Karl Marx – Selbourne was born in London, but brought up near Manchester, where his father was in medical practice.