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.
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.