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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, 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, 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, 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.

SERS, PETER, son of John Sers, St. Martin’s, London; b.; adm. (aged 15) May 1719; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 20 Feb 1720/1; BA 22 Jan 1724/5.

SERRIER, CHARLES, son of Charles Serrier; b. ; at school under Knipe (Admissions to Trin. Coll. Camb. , ii, 604); Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 22 Nov 1698, aged 18, scholar 1702, matr. 1698; BA 1702/3; ordained deacon (London) 4 Jun 1721.

SERJEANTSON, WILLIAM, only son of Robert Serjeantson, Hanlith, Yorks., and his first wife Mary, dau. of John Smith, Eccleshall, Yorks.; bapt. Kirkby Malham, Yorks. 26 Apr 1716 (IGI) [or 5 Apr ?]; adm. (aged 12) Jul 1728; left 1733; of Hanlith, Yorks.; m. 29 Apr 1736 Susanna, widow of John Walker, Hungerhill [check county], and dau. of Thomas Moore MD, Wakefield, Yorks.; d. Sep 1759.

SERCOMBE, RUPERT THEODORE WALTON, only son of Rupert Clampit Sercombe, Fairpark, near Exeter, Devon, merchant, and Louisa, third dau. of William Henry Smith, London, and Walton House, Bournemouth, Hampshire, founder of W. H. Smith & Son, newsagents; b. 3 Jan 1861; adm. 4 Jun 1874 (James'); QS Dec 1875; left Feb 1879; Exeter Coll. Oxford, matr. 22 Jan 1880; BA 1883; adm. Middle Temple 28 Oct 1881, called to bar 17 Nov 1885; emigrated to New Zealand by 1901; m. 8 Aug 1893 Sophia Maria Eleanor, widow of Charles Ernest Lavie, Ceylon, and dau. of Rev. Walter Maude Cosser, Vicar of Titchfield, Hampshire; d. Mar 1944.