- Charles Seale-Hayne
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The Right Honourable
Charles Seale-Hayne
PCPaymaster-General In office
18 August 1892 – 21 June 1895Monarch Victoria Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone
The Earl of RoseberyPreceded by The Lord Windsor Succeeded by The Earl of Hopetoun Personal details Born 22 October 1833 Died 22 November 1903
Mayfair, LondonNationality British Political party Liberal Charles Hayne Seale-Hayne PC (22 October 1833 – 22 November 1903) was a British businessman and Liberal politician. He served as Paymaster-General between 1892 and 1895 in the Liberal administrations of William Ewart Gladstone and the Earl of Rosebery.
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Political career
Called to the bar in 1857, Seale-Hayne was Liberal Member of Parliament for Ashburton, Devon, from 1885 until his death in 1903.[1][2] He served under William Ewart Gladstone and later the Earl of Rosebery as Paymaster-General from 1892 to 1895[3] and was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1892.[4] Apart from his political career he was also the first Chairman of the Dartmouth and Torbay Railway.
Personal life
Seale-Hayne died in November 1903, aged 70, in Mayfair, London, and was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery.[5] In his will he endowed an industrial college near Newton Abbot. Seale-Hayne College opened in 1919, later becoming part of the University of Plymouth.
Today The Seale-Hayne site is used by Dame Hannah Rogers Trust. Dame Hannah Rogers Trust provides education, therapy, care and respite for children and young people with profound physical disabilities as well as a centre to hold events to raise funds for the Dame Hannah Rogers School in Ivybridge [6]
References
- Concise Dictionary of National Biography, 1932
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Charles Seale-Hayne
Parliament of the United Kingdom New constituency Member of Parliament for Ashburton
1885–1903Succeeded by
Harry Trelawney EvePolitical offices Preceded by
The Lord WindsorPaymaster-General
1892–1895Succeeded by
The Earl of HopetounCategories:- 1833 births
- 1903 deaths
- Liberal Party (UK) MPs
- Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom
- Members of the United Kingdom Parliament for English constituencies
- UK MPs 1885–1886
- UK MPs 1886–1892
- UK MPs 1892–1895
- UK MPs 1895–1900
- UK MPs 1900–1906
- Burials at Kensal Green Cemetery
- Liberal MP (UK) stubs
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