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, 1875-1929
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.
SETON, THOMAS; b.; adm. (aged 7) Sep 1726; in under school list 1730.
Seton, Sir Henry Wilmot, 1785-1848
SETON, SIR HENRY WILMOT, eldest son of James Seton, George Street, Adelphi, London, attorney, Commissioner of Bankrupts, and Sarah Elizabeth, only dau. of Henry Wilmot, Bloomsbury Square, London, Principal Secretary to Lord Chancellor Thurlow; b. 26 Jun 1785; in school list 1801; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 27 Jun 1803, scholar 26 Apr 1805; BA 1807; MA 1810; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 21 Jan 1804, called to bar 19 Jun 1809; practised in Court of Chancery; Puisne Judge of Supreme Court, Bengal, from 1838; knighted 21 Mar 1838; author, Forms of Decrees in Equity, 1830; d. on board ship Earl of Dalhousie on passage home from India 26 Jul 1848. Buried St. Helena.
Seton, James Garden, 1789-1870
SETON, JAMES GARDEN, brother of Sir Henry Wilmot Seton (qv); b. 18 Aug 1789; in school lists 1801, 1803; carried on father’s business as attorney in The Adelphi, firm Seton and Nicholson; m. Georgiana, eldest dau. of Charles Bourchier, Hadley, Middlesex; d. at Boulogne 20 Dec 1870.
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.
Service, Douglas William, 1899-1976
Service, Douglas William, son of Frank Stanley Service, of Hampstead, by Anne Dollar, daughter of Thomas McKinlay, of Hampstead; b. March 10, 1899; adm. Jan. 16, 1913 (H); left July 1917; served in the R.H.A. and R.A.F. in Great War I; a book publisher (Seeley Service and Co. Ltd.); Freeman of City of London 1957; F.S.A. (Scots); author of numerous articles and works on shooting, fishing and yachting; Lieut. R.N.V.R. Sept. 18, 1939; Sub Lieut. (Sp.) Nov. 11, 1947; invalided as Lieut.-Cdr. Feb. 1941; Lieut.-Cdr. R.N.R. March 1, 1959; m. Oct. 24, 1925, Evelyn Caroline, daughter of the Ven. Arthur Frederick Sharp, Vicar of St Stephen's, Hampstead; d. 1976.
Service, Alastair Stanley Douglas, 1933-2013
Service, Alastair Stanley Douglas, son of Douglas William Service (qv); b. 8 May 1933; adm. Sept. 1947 (W); left July 1951; The Queen’s Coll. Oxf., matric. 1953 but did not graduate; trainee Lazard Bros 1956-8; import and export trader McKinlay Watson & Co., 1958-64; publisher Seeley Service & Co., 1965-79; national committee member Birth Control Campaign, Population Concern 1973-2004, chmn. 1971-7; and campaigner various causes, incl. Abortion Law Reform 1963-7, Divorce Law Reform Union 1967-9, The Children’s Act 1975, and Public Lending Rights for Authors Act 1979; national committee member Victorian Soc. 1975-95; vice-chmn. Health Education Council 1976-87, Health Education Authority 1987-9; gen. sec. Family Planning Assn. 1980-9; chmn. Wessex Regional Health Authority 1993-4, Wiltshire Health Authority 1992-2000; co-founder Action for the River Kennet, 1991-2007, Hon. Sec. 1991-2; CBE 1995; MVO 2007; author various publications on birth control and architecture; librettist Sky Speaker 1999, The Angel Cantata 2003, Brunel’s Kingdom 2005; m. 1st, 28 Feb 1959 Louisa Ann Hemming OBE, publisher and magistrate, d. of Col. Henry Harold Hemming OBE MC; m. 2nd, 21 Feb 1992 Zandria Madeleine, d. of John Ernest Pauncefort, of Kent; d. 20 Mar. 2013.