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Seton, Sir Henry Wilmot, 1785-1848
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1785-1848
History
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.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.