Henry Seton-Karr
Sir Henry Carba Seton-Karr | |
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Born | U.K. | 5 February 1853
Died | 29 May 1914 | (aged 61)
Resting place | Mount Hermon Cemetery, Sillery, Quebec, Canada |
Alma mater | Corpus Christi College, Oxford (MA) |
Occupation(s) | Explorer, hunter, author, politician |
Spouse(s) | Edith Eliza Pilkington (1880–1884) (her death) Jane Jarvie Thorburn (1886–1914) (his death) |
Sir Henry Seton-Karr
Seton-Karr, born in India in 1853, was the son of George Berkeley Seton-Karr, of the Indian Civil Service (resident Commissioner at
Seton-Karr was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for St Helens in the 1885 general election and held the seat until his defeat at the 1906 general election.[4] He did not stand again in St Helens, but at the January 1910 general election he stood unsuccessfully in Berwickshire.[5]
He became a
He was also Chairman of the Liverpool, St Helens and South Lancashire Railway at the time of its opening in 1900 and Chairman of the Lancashire and Cheshire Workingmen's Federation in the late 1890s.[1]
On 11 November 1880 Seton-Karr married Edith Eliza Pilkington (1860-1884), daughter of William Roby Pilkington and Elizabeth Lee Watson of Roby Hall, Liverpool. They had three children: George Bernard (born 12 September 1881), Malcolm Henry (born 21 October 1882) and Edith Muriel (born 1884). Both George and Edith Muriel died in their teens. After the death of his wife in 1884, he remarried in 1886 to Jane Jarvie Thorburn (1862-1953). They had two children: Helen Mary (born 6 October 1888) and Kenneth William (born 21 March 1897).
At Grange Park Golf Club, St Helens an annual competition is still played in the name of Seton-Karr. This is the most prestigious competition in the clubs calendar.
Seton-Karr died in Canada's greatest peacetime maritime disaster when the
Publications
- Shores and Alps of Alaska (1887)
- Ten Years' Wild Sports in Foreign Lands; Or, Travels in the Eighties (1889)
- A Handy Guide-Book to the Japanese Islands
- Bear-hunting in the White Mountains; or, Alaska and British Columbia revisted (1891)
- "How I Shot My Lions" in Everybody's Magazine (January 1900)
- My Sporting Holidays (1904)
- Chapter in Early American Big Game Hunting (1905)
References
- ^ a b c "Mr H Seton-Karr, MP". Lancashire Faces & Places. 1 (6): 86. June 1901.
- Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2014 (April 2014 online ed.). A & C Black. Retrieved 30 May 2014. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ Debretts Guide to the House of Commons 1886
- ISBN 0-900178-27-2.
- ^ Craig, op. cit., page 531
- ^ "No. 26797". The London Gazette. 24 November 1896. p. 6510.
- ^ "No. 27490". The London Gazette. 31 October 1902. p. 6910.
- ^ "Birthday Honours". The Times. No. 36921. London. 10 November 1902. p. 10.
- ^ "No. 27513". The London Gazette. 6 January 1903. p. 105.
- ^ Find a Grave
External links
- Works by or about Henry Seton-Karr at Wikisource
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Henry Seton-Karr