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GB-2014-WSA-15478 · Person · 1851-1892

SHACKLE, HENRY STEVENS, son of John Shackle, Uxbridge, Middlesex; b. 18 Mar 1851; adm. 26 May 1864 (G); left Aug 1869; brewer, living London (1881 Census); d. 15 Aug 1892.

GB-2014-WSA-15475 · Person · 1878-1954

Seymour-Lucas, Sidney Charles, son of John Seymour Lucas, R.A., of Hampstead, by Marie Elizabeth Seymour, daughter of Louis Dieudonne de Cornelissen, of Paris; b. May 9, 1878; adm. Sept. 22, 1892 (H); left April 1895; an artist; d. June 11, 1954.

GB-2014-WSA-15474 · Person · ca. 1730-1807

SEYMOUR, HENRY, son of Francis Seymour MP, Sherborne, Dorset, and Elizabeth, widow of Edward Richard Montagu, Viscount Hinchingbroke MP, Col. 37th Foot, and dau. of Alexander Popham MP, Littlecote, Wilts.; half-brother of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (qv); b.; adm. (aged 9) Mar 1738/9 (Powell's); left 1747; New Coll. Oxford, matr. 23 Apr 1747; Grand Tour (Italy) 1751-2; a Groom of the Bedchamber 16 Feb 1763 – 17 Jan 1765; MP Totnes 7 Apr 1763-8, Huntingdon 1768-74, Evesham 1774-80; settled at Prunay, near Versailles, France 1778; the neighbour and penultimate lover of Madame Du Barry; returned to England in 1792; his property in France was confiscated, and bundles of his tradesmens’ bills and other papers are now in the Archives Nationales, Paris; author of a French prose translation of William Mason’s poem The English Garden, 1788; m. 1st, 24 Jul 1753 Lady Caroline Cowper, only dau. of William Cowper, 2nd Earl Cowper; m. 2nd, 5 Oct 1775 Louise Thérèse, widow of Comte Guillaume de Panthou, and dau. of Charles de La Martillière, Seigneur de Chançay; d. 14 Apr 1807. DNB.

GB-2014-WSA-15473 · Person · ca. 1753-1782

SEYMORE, WILLIAM, son of William Seymore, Bromley, Kent, Sacrist and Verger, Westminster Abbey, and Esther Brett; b.; adm.; BB Lady Day 1762; in school lists 1764, 1765; KS 1766; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1770, matr. 15 Jun 1770, aged 17, Westminster Student from 24 Dec 1770; BA 1774; MA 1778; ordained deacon (Oxford) 2 Jun 1776; d. 1782.

GB-2014-WSA-15469 · Person · 1879-1913

Sewell, Ivon Govett, son of Frederick John Sewell, of Byfleet, Surrey; b. Jan: 16, 1879; adm. Sept. 28, 1893 (H); left April 1896; 2nd Lieut. Royal Fusiliers June 24, 1899; Lieut. June 27, 1900; Capt. May 4, 1907; served in the South African War 1899-1902; d. at Zungern, West Africa, June 28, 1913.

Seward, Thomas, 1708-1790
GB-2014-WSA-15466 · Person · 1708-1790

SEWARD, THOMAS, brother of Francis Seward (qv); bapt. Badsey, Worcs. 31 Oct 1708 (IGI); adm. (aged 9) Feb 1718/9; KS 1723; failed to obtain election to either university 1727; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 17 Jun 1727, matr. 1727; 1st in “ordo” 1730/1; BA 1730/1; MA 1734; ordained deacon (Salisbury) 19 Dec 1731, priest (Rochester) 20 May 1732; Rector of Llanmaes, Glamorgan 6 Jun 1733-40; travelling tutor with Lord Charles Fitzroy in Italy 1738-9; Chaplain, Royal Navy 1739; Rector of Eyam, Derbs., from 22 Mar 1739/40; Rector of Kingsley, Staffs., from 2 Apr 1747; Prebendary of Lichfield from 30 Apr 1755 and of Salisbury from 5 Jun 1755; a friend of Dr. Samuel Johnson, whom he used to entertain at Lichfield; portrayed as the Canon in Richard Graves’s Columella, 1779; joint editor of Beaumont and Fletcher’s Plays, 1750; m. 27 Oct 1741 Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. John Hunter, Head Master, Lichfield GS; d. 4 Mar 1790. DNB.

Seward, John, 1675-?
GB-2014-WSA-15465 · Person · 1675-?

SEWARD, JOHN, son of Rev. Charles Seward, Curate, Kensington, Middlesex, and Elizabeth Baker (IGI); bapt. St. Mary Abbots, Kensington 30 Apr 1675 (IGI); adm.; KS 1692; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1695, adm. pens. 28 May 1695, aged 18, scholar from 24 Apr 1696, matr. 1695; buried St. Michael’s, Cambridge 17 Dec 1696.

GB-2014-WSA-15464 · Person · ca. 1702-1732

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).

GB-2014-WSA-15463 · Person · 1917-1995

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.

GB-2014-WSA-15462 · Person · 1911-1987

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.