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 558 SEWN. Arms — Arg. three cinquefoils sa. Crest — A tiger sejant arg. manea and crowned or. Seats— Besford Court, Persbore, Worcestei-shire, and Beech- wood, Hemel Hempstead. Town House— 27, Lowndes Square, s.w. Eineage. SIR EDWARD SEBRIGHT, of Besford, co. Wore, (de- scended from Mabell Sebright temp. EDW. I. who m. Catherine, dau. and heir of Ralph Cowper, of Blackshall, parish of Wolverley, co. Wore), sheriff Wore. 1621/2, a zealous royalist. compounded for his estate £1,109; created a Baronet 20 Dec. 1626; m. 1st, Theodosia, dau. of Gerard Whorwood, of Compton, Staff. ; and 2ndly, Larly Elizabeth Montagu, eldest dau. of Henry, 1st Earl of Manchester, and relict of Sir Lewis Mansel, Bart. By his 1st wife he had 2 sons and a dau. His descendant in the 6th generation, SIR THOMAS GAGE SAUNDERS, 8th Baronet (on the death of his father 1846); b. 1802; d. 29 Aug. 1864, liaving m. 1st — 17 Nov. 1842, Sai-ah Anne, 2nd dau. of Capt. Hoffman, R.x. ; she d. 14 Feb. 1846, having had an only son, (1) Sir John Gage Saunders, 9th and present Baronet. SIR THOilAS m. 2ndly— 17 July, 1850, Olivia, youngest dau. of John Joseph Henry.Esq.of Straffan, co. Kildare (D.LEixster), and sister of late Adm. the Right Hon. Sir Hastings Reginald Yelverton, G.C.B. ; she d. 14 Feb. 1846, having had 3 sons, (2) Edgar Reginald Saunders, capt. 4th batt. Bedfordshire regt. since 1881; b. 27 May, 1854. (3) Guy Thomas Saunders, 2nd lieut. Coldstream guards, late Beds mil.; b. 19 Aug. 1856. (4) Arthur Edward Saunders, lieut. Herts, mil.; b. 30 Mar. 1859. SETON, Sir Bruce Maxwell, " of Abercorn" (1663, N.S.), D.L. Tower Hamlets, private sec. to the lord president of the council 1867/74, a senior clerk war office since 1871 ; s. his grandfather as 8th Baronet in 1869; b. 31 Jan. 1836 ; heir pre- sumptive, his cousin Major Alexander Seton. Arms — Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Or, three crescents ■within the royal tressure of Scotland gu., Seton. 2nd and 3rd, Arg. three escutcheons gu. all within a bordure of the last. Crest— A Cornish chough in front of a rock all ppr Mottoes— Hazard warily, and Forward ours. Town Residence— 5e, Albany, w. Hineagj. SIR WALTER SETON, of Northbank (7th in descent from Sir Alexander Seton, eldest son of Alexander, 1st Earl of Huntly— see PEERAGE) had a charter of the barony of Aber- corn, CO. Linlithgow 16G2, created a BARONET OF NoVA ScOTiA 3 June, 1663; m. Christian, dau. of George Dundas, of Dundas. His great-grandson, SIR HENRY, 4th Baronet, of Culbeg,capt. 17th regt.seived heir male to John Seton, of Touch, 8 Aug. 1761; d. 1788, having m. Margaret, dau. of Ale.xander Hay, Esq. of Drumol- zier (M. Tweepdale) ; she d. 2 Mar. 1809, leaving a sou, viz.: SIR ALEXANDER, E.I.c.s. 5th Baronet; b. 4 May, 1772; d. at Calcutta 4 Feb. 1810, having m. 20 May, 1795, Lydia, r.th dau. of Sir rtiarlcs William Blunt, Bart.; she d. 23 Feb. 1851, having had 3 sous, [1] Sir Henry John, 6th Baronet, groom in waiting, capt. in the army, served in the Peninsular war; b. 4 April, 1796; d. unm. 21 July, 1868. [2] Sir Charles Hay, s. as 7th Baronet. [3] Bruce, col. E.I.C.S. b. 25 June. 1799 ; d. 27 Nov. 1876, ha^nng m. 1st — Elphinstoue, 2ndly— Emma Orton, by whom he had 5 sons and a dau. (1) Alexander Reginald, major R.E. (late Bombay), heir presumptive to the Baronetcy ; b. 25 May, 1840 ; m. 18 Sept. 1862, Emma Elizabeth, eldest dau. of late William Loch, major 1st Bombay lancers, and has a son and 3 daus. Bruce Gordon, b. 13 Oct. 1868.— Katharine Marion.— Elsie Madeleine. — Aileen Mary. (2) Bruce Outram, major R.E. (late Bombay), instructor in fortification, Sandhurst, 1875; b. 7 May, 1841; ni. 21 July, 1880, Louisa Haniet Manderson, eldest dau. of Dep.-Surgeon- Gen. Charles T. Paske, late Bengal army, and has a dau. b. 2 Aug. 1881. (3) William Bowman, capt. Bombay staff; b.l Sept. 1843: m. 7 Sept. 1878, Elizabeth Frances Maria, eldest dau. of Major- Gen. George Swiny, Bengal staff. (4) Charles Compton, lieut. late R.E.; b. 24 July, 1846; m. 30 July, 1868, Phoebe Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Henry Willi.am Ripley, Bart.; she d. 3 Dec. 1873, having had 2 sons, Charles Henry, b. 28 April, 1869.— Bruce Hugh, b. 6 Nov. 1871. (5) Henry James, lieut. 86th regt.; b. 27 Aug. 1854. (6) Emma Alice, m. 18 July ,1876, to Henry, 2nd son of Sir Henry William Ripley, Bart, aforesaid. SIR CHARLES HAY, 7th Baronet, capt. 5th dragoon guards; b. 14 Nov. 1797 ; d. 11 June, 1869. having m. 19 May, 1829, Caroline, dau. of Walter Perry Hodges; she d. 17 Nov. 1868, having had an only son, (1) Sir Bruce Maxwell, 8th and present Baronet. SETON, Sir James Lumsden, of Pitmedden, Aberdeenshire (1683, n.s.) ; capt. 102nd regt. 1862/70, served in India and Abyssinia, medals, &c.; b. 1 Sept. 1835 ; s. his father as 8th Baronet in 1880 ; married, Arm.S— Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Or, three crescents and in the centre a man's heart distilling blood the whole within the royal tressure of Scotland gii. Seton. 2nd and 3rd, Arg. a demi- otter sa. crowned gu. issiung out of a bar wavy of the second, Meldrum. Crest — A demi-man in military habit holding the banner of Scotland with the motto (on an escrol above), " Sustento san- guine signa." Si'PPORTERS — Dexter, a deerhound arg. collared gu. charged with crescents or. Sinister, an otter sa. Seat— Pitmedder, Aberdeenshire.