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.
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, 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.
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.
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.
SENIOR, THOMAS, of London; b.; adm.; KS 1641; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1646, adm. pens. 19 Jun 1646, scholar 1647, matr. Mich. 1646; BA 1649/50; MA 1653 (incorp. Oxford 10 Jul 1655); BD 1660; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1650 –1662, Tutor 1653-8; Lecturer, Trinity Church, Cambridge; removed from Fellowship and Lecturership on refusing to conform; became a dissenting lecturer at Hackney, Middlesex; licensed as Presbyterian preacher, Clapton, Middlesex 12 Apr 1672; lic. to m. 31 May 1671 Anne Johnstone, Hackney, widow; will dated 18 Dec 1680, proved PCC 17 Feb 1680/1.