Charles Seale-Hayne

The Right Honourable Charles Seale-Hayne
Paymaster-General
In office 18 August 1892 – 21 June 1895
Monarch	Victoria
Prime Minister	William Ewart Gladstone The Earl of Rosebery
Preceded by	The Lord Windsor
Succeeded by	The Earl of Hopetoun
Personal details
Born	22 October 1833
Died	22 November 1903 (aged 70) Mayfair, London
Nationality	British
Political party	Liberal

Arms of Hayne: Or, on a fess invected azure a rose argent seeded of the first barbed vert between two plates in chief a greyhound courant sable^[1]

Charles Hayne Seale-Hayne PC (22 October 1833 – 22 November 1903) of Fuge House in the parish of Blackawton and of Kingswear Castle, Dartmouth harbour, both in Devon, was a British businessman and Liberal politician, serving as Member of Parliament for Ashburton in Devon, from 1885 until his death in 1903.^[2][3] He served as Paymaster-General between 1892 and 1895 in the Liberal administrations of William Ewart Gladstone and the Earl of Rosebery.

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.^[4][5] He served under William Ewart Gladstone and later the Earl of Rosebery as Paymaster-General from 1892 to 1895^[6] and was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1892.^[7] 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.^[8] In his will he endowed a farming and food science college near Newton Abbot. Seale-Hayne College opened in 1919, later becoming part of the University of Plymouth.

References

1. Burke, Sir Bernard, Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain, Vol.I, London, 1871, p.605, pedigree of "Seale-Hayne of Fuge House and Kingswear Castle"
2. The London Gazette: no. 25541. p. 6133. 18 December 1885.
3. leighrayment.com House of Commons: Arundel to Ayrshire South
4. The London Gazette: no. 25541. p. 6133. 18 December 1885.
5. leighrayment.com House of Commons: Arundel to Ayrshire South
6. hansard.millbanksystems.com Mr Charles Seale-Hayne
7. The London Gazette: no. 26320. p. 4881. 26 August 1892.
8. kensalgreen.co.uk

• Concise Dictionary of National Biography, 1932

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Charles Seale-Hayne