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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).

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.

SEWARD, BENJAMIN, brother of Francis Seward (qv); b.; adm. (aged 11) Feb 1718/9; in under school list 1719; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 2 Nov 1721, matr. 1721. [Perhaps Benjamin Seward, merchant, who m. 6 Jul 1738 Miss Slaughter, Spitalfields (GM)].

SEVIL, ---; b.; at school 1666 (Busby’s Account Book).

SEVIL, ---; b.; at school 1664-5 (Busby’s Account Book).

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.