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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
SHACKLETON, CHARLES ARCHIBALD WILKINSON, son of John Shackleton, London, and Sarah Elizabeth --- (IGI); b. 9 May 1868; adm. 8 Jun 1882, exhibitioner (J); QS 1883; left Easter 1886; went out to Australia, and afterwards to South Africa; d. in Mashonaland 8 Apr 1893.
Shackleton, Richard Mark Yelverton, son of Raymond Swinfold Shackleton, engineering co. dir., and Doreen Brenda Cicely, d. of Frederick Algernon Green, solicitor, of Chelsea; b. 12 May 1944; adm. Sept. 1957 (R); left July 1962; Univ. Coll. Oxf., matric. 1962, BA 1966 (1st class hons PPE), MA 1969; lecturer in Modern History Univ. of Birmingham 1970-, latterly sen. tutor; d. 3 July 1990.
SHADWELL, CHARLES LANCELOT, brother of Lancelot Shadwell (qv); b. 16 Dec 1840; adm. 7 Oct 1853 (James'); QS (Capt. ) 1855; Capt. of the School 1858; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1859, matr. 16 Jun 1859; 1st cl. Classics (Mods) 1861; 1st cl. Lirt. Hum. 1863; BA 1863; MA 1866; BCL 1872; DCL 1898; Fellow, Oriel Coll. 1864-98, Treasurer 1874-87, Provost 1905-14; Senior Proctor 1875-6; Public Examiner in Jurisprudence and Modern History 1869-70, Jurisprudence 1876-7, 1878-80; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 2 Nov 1864, called to bar 30 Apr 1872; Busby Trustee 15 May 1906-16; author of English verse translation of Dante’s The Purgatory, 1892, and other works; friend and literary executor of Walter Pater; d. unm. 13 Feb 1919. DNB.
SHADWELL, JOHN LANCELOT, brother of Lancelot Shadwell (qv); b. 3 Apr 1844; adm. 26 Mar 1858 (James'); QS 1859; left Sep 1861; totally blind for many years; d. 1 Jul 1900.