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.

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.

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, 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, 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.

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.

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.

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.

SHADWELL, WALTER HARVEY LANCELOT, brother of Lancelot Shadwell (qv); b. 10 Nov 1851; adm. 14 Jul 1865 (James'); QS 31 Jan 1867; left Dec 1869; Clerk in Principal Probate Registry 5 Feb 1872, District Probate Registrar, Bodmin 2 Mar 1892 – 6 Aug 1921; JP Cornwall 1901; Alderman, Fowey Town Council, Cornwall 1913, Mayor 1914-9; FSA 8 Jan 1874; m. 23 Nov 1910 Ethel Mary Hobhouse, dau. of Rev. Augustus V. Thornton, Rector of St. Mellion, Cornwall [check]; d. 29 Oct 1931.