SEWARD, JOHN, son of Rev. Charles Seward, Curate, Kensington, Middlesex, and Elizabeth Baker (IGI); bapt. St. Mary Abbots, Kensington 30 Apr 1675 (IGI); adm.; KS 1692; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1695, adm. pens. 28 May 1695, aged 18, scholar from 24 Apr 1696, matr. 1695; buried St. Michael’s, Cambridge 17 Dec 1696.

SEWARD, FRANCIS, fourth son of John Seward, Badsey, near Evesham, Worcs., Steward to Lord Windsor, and Elizabeth, dau. of --- Hartopp, Alderman of Worcester; b.; adm.; KS (aged 15) 1717; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1720, adm. pens. 18 Jun 1720, scholar 21 Apr 1721, matr. 1721; BA 1723/4; MA 1727; appealed to Dean and Chapter of Westminster on his failure to secure election as a Fellow of Trinity Coll. (Acts of Chapter 14 Mar 1726/7), but nothing seems to have come of it; adm. Middle Temple 23 Nov 1726; ordained priest (Lincoln) 25 Mar 1728; Curate, Dersingham and West Newton, Norfolk; Rector of Newton and Sandringham, Norfolk, from 1731; m. 1728 --- Clarges, widow (who kept a boarding house at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk), dau. of Rev. Thomas Gill, Vicar of Dersingham, Norfolk (Hartshorne, ed., Memoirs of a Royal Chaplain, 1905, 110-2); d. 1732 (will proved PCC 23 Jun 1732).

Seward, Edgar Henry, brother of Charles William Seward (qv); b. 24 Nov. 1917; adm. Sept. 1931 (H), KS Jan. 1932; left July 1936; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1936, shot against Cambridge 1937-9, BA 1939, BM MA 1942; RAMC 1943-7 (Capt.); Dip. Anaesth. (Lond.) 1947, DObstRCOG 1948, FFARCS 1954; res. asst and sen. Registrar Nuffield Dept of Anaesthesia, Oxford, 1947-51; consult. anaesthetist High Wycombe Group of Hospitals 1951-80; m. 19 Sept. 1942 Winifred Mary, d. of J. Moms Woodroffe ARCA, artist and schoolmaster; d. 17 June 1995.

Seward, Charles William, son of Edgar Cecil Seward of Surbiton, Surrey, and Hilda Ethel Maud, sister of William Barnabas Woodhouse (qv); b. 3 Aug. 1911; adm. Sept. 1925 (H); left Apr. 1929; Queen's Coll. Oxf., matric. 1929, shot against Cambridge 1930-3, BA 1933; member British rifle team visiting S. Africa and Australia 1937; Middx Hosp. Med. Sch., MRCS LRCP 1937; RAMC 1939-45 (Capt.); gen. med. practice Wantage, Berks; m. 2 Aug. 1946 Miriam Erna, d. of P. S. Martin of Hampton Wick, Middx; d. 18 Jan. 1987.

SEVERNE, THOMAS, son of John Severne, Powick, Worcs., and Mary, dau. of Richard Langley, The Abbey, Shrewsbury, Shropshire; bapt. 28 Apr 1620; adm.; KS 1635; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1638, matr. 23 Nov 1638, aged 17, Westminster Student; BA 1642; MA 1645 (incorp. Cambridge 1651); although an order was made on 15 May 1648 for his removal from his Studentship on account of his non-submission to the Parliamentary Visitors, he was not ejected until Jul 1650, and a few weeks afterwards he was restored by the Committee (Burrows, 296, 300, 301); formally reinstated 1660; ordained; “an eminent tutor and venerable divine”; does not seem to have held any ecclesiastical preferment; a quaint letter of his to his “ever-honoured master” Richard Busby (qv), dated Worcester 21 Oct 1689, in which he describes himself as “your first-beloved scholar”, is printed Nichols, Literary Illustrations, iv, 406; d. unm. 6 Oct 1698.

Severn, Herbert Sedgwick, son of Joseph Arthur Palliser Severn (q.v.); b. Oct. 17, 1882; adm. May 6, 1897 (G); left Dec. 1899; served in Great War I; temp. inspector ordnance machinery Sept. 6, 1915.

Severn, Arthur, son of Joseph Arthur Palliser Severn (q.v.); b. Aug. 16, 1874; adm. Sept. 25, 1888 (G); left Dec. 1892; Exeter CoJI. Oxon., matric. Lent 1897; B.A. 1902; a trout farmer at Bibury, Glos.; d. Aug. 7, 1947.

Severn, Agnew Ruskin, son of Joseph Arthur Palliser Severn (q.v.); b. Oct. 15, 1875; adm. Sept. 25, 1888 (G); left July 1894; Ch. Ch. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1894; B.A. 1899; served in the R.N.V.R. in Great War I; m. 1st April 24, 1901, Jospehine, eldest daughter of W. B. Mortimer, of Hay Carr, Lancaster; 2nd Sept. 4, 1923, Mary Edith Marshall, only daughter of Henry Wordsworth, of Godstone, Surrey; d. May 8, 1929.

SETTLE, ELKANAH, son of Josias Settle, Dunstable, Beds., and Sarah ---; b. 1 Feb 1647/8; adm.; KS 1663; Trinity Coll. Oxford, matr. 13 Jul 1666; his first play, Cambyses, King of Persia, was performed at Lincoln’s Inn Fields in 1666; his bombastic plays became so popular that Dryden’s jealousy was aroused and a fierce literary warfare ensued between them; at first a violent Whig, but afterwards an equally violent Tory; City Laureate 1691; writer of drolls for Bartholomew Fair; a Poor Brother of the Charterhouse from 1718; author, Minervae Sacellum, or the Muses’ Address to the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Burlington, on the erecting the New Dormitory for King’s Scholars at Westminster, 1722; author, numerous dramatical and poetic works; m. 28 Feb 1673/4 Mary Warner; d. 12 Feb 1723/4. DNB.

Service, Ian McKinlay, brother of Douglas William Service (q.v.); b. Aug. 2, 1901; adm. May 4, 1916 (H); left July 1920; a book publisher (Seeley Service and Co. Ltd.); Lieut. R.N.V.R. Jan. 18, 1941; Lieut.-Cdr.; m. 1st April 29, 1926, Dorothy Sylvia, daughter of Herbert T. Dicksee, of Hampstead; 2nd Dec. 1945, Mary Constance Rayner.