1833 - 1915 (81 years)
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Name |
Charles (1st Baronet) Seely |
Prefix |
Col Sir |
Birth |
11 Aug 1833 |
Gender |
Male |
Death |
16 Apr 1915 |
Person ID |
I105645 |
My Genealogy |
Last Modified |
17 Nov 2020 |
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Notes |
- A British industrialist and politician.
His father Charles Seely (1803? 1887), eldest son Sir Charles Seely, 2nd Baronet, youngest son John Edward Bernard Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone, and grandson Sir Hugh Seely, 3rd Baronet and 1st Baron Sherwood were all Members of Parliament. His grandson, David Peter Seely, 4th Baron Mottistone, was the last Governor of the Isle of Wight; he was baptised with Winston Churchill and the then Duke of Cornwall (subsequently Edward VIII, and then later HRH Duke of Windsor) as his godparents.
He was the grandfather of Frank James Wriothesley Seely, who married Vera Lilian Margaret Birkin, a sister of Freda Dudley Ward who was a mistress of Edward VIII while he was Prince of Wales. He is the great grandfather of Rachel Douglas-Home, 27th Baroness Dacre a descendant of Charles II of England, who married William Douglas-Home younger brother of the Prime Minister and 14th Earl Sir Alec Douglas-Home. He is the great great grandfather of George William Beaumont Howard, the current and 13th Earl of Carlisle whose principal family seat was Castle Howard. When he died in 1915 he left estate of ?1,052,070 (equivalent to ?493 million (2007) as measured by share of UK GDP. [1] UK CPI), which was according to The Times the 2nd largest estate that year (by comparison the estate of Nathan Mayer Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild was the largest valued at ?2,500,000) and made him one of the wealthiest men in Britain.
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