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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).
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.