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.

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.

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, 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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.