SEALY, WILLIAM, son of William Sealy (qv); bapt. Basingstoke 16 Oct 1729; adm.; KS (aged 13) 1742; Capt. of the School 1746; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1747, matr. 26 Jun 1747, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1747 – res 18 Dec 1751; severely punished by Dean and Chapter of Christ Church for his complicity with Richard James (qv) in celebration of the Pretender’s birthday 10 Jun 1750; BA 1751; penitential speech and suspension from degree for a year for riot 15 Nov 1751; ordained deacon (Norwich, lit. dim. from Winchester) Mar 1754. [Rev. William Sealy, clerk, Swarraton, Hampshire, will PCC 16 May 1768]
SEALY, ROBERT WALPOLE, son of Edward Urch Vidal (qv); b. 3 Sep 1853; adm. 26 Jan 1867 (G); QS (Capt. ) 1868; Capt. of the School 1872; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1872, matr. 23 May 1872; BA 1876; MA 1879; played Association Football for Oxford Univ. 1874 and for England v. Scotland 1873; ordained deacon 1877, priest 1878 (Salisbury); Curate, St. Edmund’s, Salisbury, Wilts., 1877-8; Vice-Principal, Ely Theological Coll. 1878-81; Curate, Holy Trinity, Ely, Cambs., 1880-1; Vicar of Abbbotsham, Devon, from 1881; assumed surname of Sealy in lieu of Sealy Vidal 26 May 1892; Prebendary of Exeter 1914; m. 1st, 2 Jun 1881 Lucy Christina, dau. of T. Fortescue Carter, Wood Park, Neston; m. 2nd, 15 Jul 1885 Gertrude, elder dau. of Major-Gen. Hickman Thomas Molesworth, Royal Artillery, Abbotsham, Devon; d. 5 Nov 1914.
Seal, Esmond Francis Seymour, son of Francis Joseph Seal FBHI, stockbroker, and Margaret Alice Seymour, d. of Seymour John Bennett JP, of Tasmania; b. 25 Feb. 1919; adm. Sept. 1931 (H); left July 1937; St John's Coll. Oxf., matric. 1937, BA 1941; Aux. Fire Service 1940-5; film industry 1945-51; BBC TV 1951-4, chief film editor TV News 1954; m.; d. 9 Dec. 1981.
SEAGRAVE, JOHN YOUNG, eldest son of Rev. Samuel Young Seagrave, Vicar of Tysoe, Warwickshire, and Henrietta, dau. of Henry Tooke, Wakefield, Yorks.; b. 13 Jul 1825; adm. 1 Feb 1838 (Scott's); QS (Capt. ) 1839; Capt. of the School 1842; rowed v. Eton 26 Jul 1842; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1843, matr. 9 Jun 1843, Westminster Student; BA 1847; MA 1850; ordained deacon 1849, priest 1850; Curate, Lovington and Castle Cary, Somerset; Vicar of Bramham, Yorks., 1852-62; m. 9 Aug 1853 Frances Henrietta, youngest dau. of Benjamin Johnson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; d. 14 Nov 1891.
SCUDAMORE, JAMES, son of John Scudamore, Kentchurch, Herefs., and Elizabeth, dau. of Sir William Cooke, Kt, Highnam, Gloucs.; b.; adm.; KS 1658; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1661, matr. 22 Aug 1661, aged 19, Westminster Student from 10 Feb 1662; BA 1665; mentioned in letter of 27 Jun 1663 written by his grandfather to Richard Busby (qv) (Nichols, Literary Illustrations, iv, 395); author, Homer à la Mode, a mock poem upon the First and Second Books of Homer’s Iliads, 1664; drowned in river Wye at Hereford 12 Jul 1666.
SCRIVENER, SAMUEL; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1628, scholar 1629, matr. Easter 1631; BA 1632/3; MA 1636; ordained; Rector of Westhorpe, Suffolk 1636-43, sequestered; of Thurton, Norfolk; m. Elizabeth ---; d. Feb or Mar 1657/8 (will proved 10 Mar 1657/8).
Scrivener, Ronald Stratford, son of Sir Patrick Scrivener KCMG, and Margaret Morris, d. of Walter Dorling, stockbroker; b. 29 Dec. 1919; adm. Jan. 1934 (B); left Dec. 1935; St Cath. Coll. Oxf., matric. 1938; RAFVR (A & SD) 1940-5 (Sqdn Ldr), despatches Jan. 1941; entered HM Foreign Service 1945, served Berlin, Buenos Aires, Vienna, Caracas, Berne, Bangkok; CMG 1965; HM Ambassador Panama 1969-70, Czechoslovakia 1971-4; Asst Under-Sec. of State FCO 1974-6; retd 1976; exec. Dir. British-Soviet Chamber of Commerce 1977-83; foreign relations and market research consultant 1983-; Freeman City of London 1984; m. 1st 20 Feb. 1947 Elisabeth, d. of Maj. Vyvyan Drake-Brockman; 2nd 1962 Mary Alice Olga Sofia Jane, d. of Sqdn Ldr Robert Charlton Lane RAF, of Havant, Hants.; d. 14 Jan. 2001
SCRIVEN, JOHN BARCLAY, second son of Edward Scriven, Dublin, and Elizabeth Barclay (IGI); b.; adm. 12 Nov 1770; KS (aged 12) 1771; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1775, matr. 14 Jun 1775, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1775 – deprived 18 Jun 1778; admonished 7 Jan 1777 for acting as second in duel between gentlemenn commoners, and deprived of Studentship for attacking Masters’ Common Room and threatening the life of Christ Church’s Rhetoric Lecturer; Ensign, 56th Foot 17 Dec 1778, 60th Foot 23 Mar 1779; Lieut., 18 Sep 1780; half-pay 1783; adm. Middle Temple 21 May 1776, called to bar 9 Jun 1788; adm. King’s Inns, Dublin 1786; practised in Jamaica and at Dublin; “father” of the Irish bar; m. [by c. 1784]; d. in Dublin 29 Mar 1835, in 77th year.
SCRATTON, WILLIAM, sixth son of William Scratton, Dover, Kent, and Susan, youngest dau. of George Ansell, Hackney, Middlesex; b. 26 Dec 1828; adm. 30 Mar 1842 (G); QS 1843; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1847, matr. 27 May 1847, Westminster Student 1847-72; BA 1851; MA 1854; ordained deacon (Oxford) 1853, priest (Canterbury) 1854; Curate, Tenterden and Smallhythe, Kent 1853-5, Gunthorpe, Norfolk 1859-63, Platt, Kent 1865-71; Vicar of Badby, Northants, from 31 Oct 1871; m. 9 Nov 1871 Margaret, second dau. of Rev. Francis Thomas Gregory, Vicar of Platt, Kent; d. 30 Jun 1919.
Scrase, John Howard, twin brother of David Ellison Scrase (qv); b. 15 Mar. 1949; adm. Jan. 1963 (B); left Dec. 1967; Univ. of Bristol, BSc 1972; Harvard Univ., MA, USA, MBA 1974; First Nat. City Bank 1974-5; Citicorp Internat. Dev. Organisation 1975; a businessman; worked for several different enterprises in Kuwait and then in Lagos, Nigeria; m. 1st, 25 May 1985 in Bangalore, Clara Fernandes; 2nd, 23 Apr. 1991 in Lagos, Eunice Kessena Ozegha; d. Port Harcourt, Nigeria 27 Feb. 2016.