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Severne, ---; proprietor of boarding house in late 1780s and early 1790s (house “had only seven boys”) ; John Smith (qv) became house usher there about Sep 1789 and moved to become house usher with Mrs Clapham at Whitsun 1791.

SEVERN, WALTER, eldest son of Joseph Severn, artist and HBM Consul at Rome, and Elizabeth, dau. of Archibald Montgomerie, Lord Montgomerie, Major-Gen. in Army; b. 12 Oct 1830; adm. 11 Nov 1843; an account of his “mill” in Fighting Green on 29 Jun 1847, the noise of which disturbed the consecration ceremonies in the Abbey, is given in Mrs. Gordon’s Life and correspondence of William Buckland, 1894, 235-7; left Summer 1847; entered Civil Service 1852, serving for 33 years in the Education Department of the Privy Council Office; started the making of art furniture with Charles Locke Eastlake (qv) 1857; encouraged the revival of art needlework 1865; a landscape painter in water colours; founded Dudley Gallery Art Society 1865 and was its President from 1883; m. 28 Dec 1866 Mary Dalrymple, dau. of Sir Charles Dalrymple Fergusson, Bart., advocate; d. 22 Sep 1904. DNB.

SEVERN, JOSEPH ARTHUR PALLISER, brother of Walter Severn (qv); b. 14 Aug. 1842; adm Oct. 1, 1858; left May 1860; studied art in Paris and Rome; on his return to England exhibited seven drawings at the Dudley Gallery, all of which were sold, and thereupon adopted landscape painting as his profession; elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours 1882, and of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters; inherited Brantwood, on Coniston Lake, Lancs, on John Ruskin's death in Jan. 1900; m. April 1872 Joan Ruskin Tweddale, daughter of George Agnew, Sheriff Clerk of Wigton, and cousin and ward of John Ruskin; d. Feb. 23, 1931.

Severn, Herbert Sedgwick, son of Joseph Arthur Palliser Severn (q.v.); b. Oct. 17, 1882; adm. May 6, 1897 (G); left Dec. 1899; served in Great War I; temp. inspector ordnance machinery Sept. 6, 1915.

SEVERN, CHARLES; b.; adm. 12 Jun 1787. [Probably Charles Severn, son of Benjamin Severn and Ann (Smith ?), bapt. St. Mary, St. Marylebone Road 27 Aug 1775 (IGI), and if so perhaps a younger brother of Benjamin Penn Severn (qv); Benjamin Severn, St. George the Martyr parish, London, had m. at St. George, Hanover Square 20 May 1768 Ann Smith, that parish]

SEVERN, BENJAMIN PENN; b.; adm. 27 Sep 1784; m. 12 Nov 1819 Elizabeth Nicks (IGI). [will of Rev. Benjamin Penn Severn, dissenting minister, and schoolmaster, Epping, Essex, proved PCC 29 Jul 1829]

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, 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.