SELBY, FRANCIS; b.; adm. (aged 16) Sep 1719.
SELBY, ---; b.; at school under Markham c. 1755; described by his schoolfellow Jeremy Bentham (qv), as “a marvellously stupid chap” (Bentham, Works, x, 30).
SEIGNIOR, GEORGE, son of George Seignior, Fleet Street, London; b.; adm.; KS in 1656; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1659, aged 18, adm. pens. 10 May 1659, scholar 1659, matr. Easter 1659; BA 1662/3; MA 1666; BD 1673; DD 1678; Fellow, Trinity Coll., from 1664; signed for deacon’s orders (London) 16 Dec 1664; Chaplain to Dr. George Wilde, Bishop of Derry; Domestic Chaplain to Earl of Burlington; Vicar of St. Michael’s, Cambridge; a liberal benefactor to Trinity Coll. and assisted many of the students “so as to enable them to remain resident at the College, free from the distractions of poverty”; an account of his life, written by James Fawket (qv), was published in 1682; d. 16 Oct 1678.
Segalla, Charles, son of Adolphe Segalla, of London; b. June 24, 1877; adm. April 24, 1890 (H); left May 1891; d. at Paris circ. 1894.
SEDLEY, SIR CHARLES, BART., only son of Sir Charles Sedley, Bart., and Elizabeth, dau. of William Frith, Nuthall, Notts.; bapt. Oxton, Notts. 19 May 1721 (IGI); succ. father as 2nd baronet 18 Feb 1729/30; adm. (aged 10) Apr 1732; left 1738; University Coll. Oxford, matr. 22 Feb 1738/9; DCL 13 Apr 1749; MP Nottingham 26 May 1747-54, and from 1774; of Nuthall, Notts.; d. unm. 23 Aug 1778.
SEDLEY, CHARLES HENRY, son of Henry Venables-Vernon, 3rd Baron Vernon (qv); b. 5 May 1792; adm. 7 Oct 1802 (Clapham); in school list 1803; d. at school 2 May 1804. Buried South Cloister, Westminster Abbey.
Sedgwick, Richard Romney, son of Adam Sedgwick, F.R.S., of Cambridge, by Laura Helen Elizabeth, youngest daughter of Capt. Robinson, of Armagh; b. May 29, 1894; adm. Sept. 24, 1908 (G); K.S. 1909; elected head to Trin. Coll. Camb. (with Samwaies) July 1912, matric. Michaelmas 1912; 1st class Hist. Tripos, pt. 1, 1914; 1st class Hist. Tripos, pt. 2, 1915; Gladstone Memorial Prize 1914; B.A. 1915; M.A. 1920; Fellow of Trin. Coll. Camb. 1920; served in Ministry of Munitions 1916-8 and of Labour 1918-9; asst. principal 1919; transferred to Colonial Office 1929; private secretary to Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Dominions Office, 1922; principal 1930; official secretary, Office of High Commissioner, Australia, 1938-41 and New Zealand, 1941-4; Deputy High Commissioner, South Africa, 1946-9; Asst. Under Secretary of State 1949; C.M.G. Jan. 1, 1945; edited The Memoirs of the Reign ef King George II by John Lord Hervey (q.v.) (1931); The Letters of George III to Lord Bute (1939); m. Sept. 17, 1936, Mana, daughter of Thomas Callan Hodson, William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology, Cambridge; d. 20 Jan. 1972.
SEDGWICK, EDWARD; b.; adm. (aged 8) Jan 1730/1; left 1738. [Perhaps Edward Sedgwick who was Clerk, Board of Trade Jun 1738 – Dec 1755, Solicitor and Clerk of Reports, Board of Trade Jun 1753 – Sep 1763, Under-Secretary of State Sep 1763 – Jul 1765, Jan –Jun 1771, and Master of the Horse to Lord Lieut., Ireland c. 1763; perhaps Edward Sedgwick, New Street, Hanover Square, London, d. 21 Nov 1781 (will PCC, of St. James’s, Westminster, 3 Dec 1781)].