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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)].

SEDGEWICK, ROBERT; b.; adm. (aged 8) Jun 1735; left 1738. [Probably Robert Sedgwick, bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 2 Feb 1726 (IGI), son of Robert Sedgwick and Deborah --- ]. [note Robert Sedgwick, St. Martin’s in the Fields, will PCC 14 Jun 1744]

SEDGEWICK, ---; b.; in school list 1736.

SEDDON, HUGH BONVILL, son of John Pollard Seddon FRIBA, Grosvenor Road, Westminster, architect, and Margaret, eldest dau. of Joseph Barber; b. 17 Feb 1866; adm. 24 Jan 1878 (H); left May 1883; St. Thomas’s Hospital; MRCS LRCP 1888; Surgeon to South African Field Force in South African War, severely wounded; medical practitioner at Bromley, Kent, firm Ilott, Grant-Wilson, Scott and Seddon; d. unm. 2 Jan 1909.

Seddon, Charles James Gordon, son of Henry Charles Seddon, of Hampstead, barrister-at­ law, by Madena, youngest daughter of R. H. Moore, of London; b. Feb. 26, 1885; adm. Sept. 22, 1898 (R); left July 1903; Univ. Coll. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1903; an architect and surveyor; m. May 5, 1943, Violet Marjory, third daughter of Charles Saunders; d. Nov. 16, 1956.

SECRETAN, THEODORE, son of Rev. Charles Frederick Secretan, Vicar of Holy Trinity, Vauxhall Bridge Road, Westminster, and Jessie Elizabeth, sister of Bernard Nathaniel Thoms (qv); b. 1 Nov 1859; adm. 16 Jun 1870; left Dec 1876; went to South Africa 1881; engaged in mining there; m. 27 Jan 1887 Maria Magdaline, dau. of John Farrell, Kimberley, South Africa; d. 17 May 1951.

SECRETAN, CLEMENT CHARLES, brother of Theodore Secretan (qv); b. 2 Mar 1861; adm. 23 Jan 1873; left May 1878; for twelve years in Natal Mounted Police; served in Zulu War 1879; afterwards in business in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, with Mauri Tompson Bros, cork merchants; m. Ada von Alkenarde; d. 1950.