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| death_place = [[RMS Empress of Ireland]], [[St. Lawrence River]]
| death_place = [[RMS Empress of Ireland]], [[St. Lawrence River]]
| resting_place= [[Mount Hermon Cemetery]], [[Sillery, Quebec City|Sillery]], [[Quebec]], [[Canada]]
| resting_place= [[Mount Hermon Cemetery]], [[Sillery, Quebec City|Sillery]], [[Quebec]], [[Canada]]
| spouse = Edith Eliza Pilkington (1880–1884) (her death)<br>Jane Jarvie Thorburn (1886–1914) (his death)
| spouse = Edith Eliza Pilkington (1880–1884) (her death)<br />Jane Jarvie Thorburn (1886–1914) (his death)
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| occupation = Explorer, hunter, author, politician
| occupation = Explorer, hunter, author, politician
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'''Sir Henry Seton-Karr''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CMG|DL}} (5 February 1853 – 29 May 1914) was an English explorer, hunter and author and a [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] politician who sat in the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]] from 1885 to 1906.
'''Sir Henry Seton-Karr''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CMG|DL}} (5 February 1853 – 29 May 1914) was an English explorer, hunter and author and a [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] politician who sat in the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]] from 1885 to 1906.


Seton-Karr was the son of George Berkeley Seton-Karr, of the Indian Civil Service; and his wife Eleanor, the daughter of Henry Usborne of Branches Park, Suffolk. He was educated at [[Harrow School]] and [[Corpus Christi College, Oxford|Corpus Christi College]], [[University of Oxford]] gaining an MA in Law and was called to the bar at [[Lincoln's Inn]] in 1879.<ref>{{Who's Who | surname = Seton-Karr | othernames = Sir Henry | id = U190821| type = was | volume = 1920–2014 | edition = April 2014 online | accessed = 30 May 2014 }}</ref> Seton-Karr owned a cattle ranch (Pick Ranch) in Wyoming, USA and was a director of Capitol Freehold Land and Investment Co.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/debrettshouseo1886londuoft Debretts Guide to the House of Commons 1886]</ref> He was an explorer, big game hunter and writer.
Seton-Karr, born in India in 1853, was the son of George Berkeley Seton-Karr, of the Indian Civil Service (resident Commissioner at [[Baroda]] during the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857|Indian Mutiny]]);<ref name="Lan">{{cite journal |title=Mr H Seton-Karr, MP |journal=Lancashire Faces & Places |date=June 1901 |volume=1 |issue=6 |page=86}}</ref> and his wife Eleanor, the daughter of Henry Usborne of Branches Park, Suffolk. He was educated at [[Harrow School]] and [[Corpus Christi College, Oxford|Corpus Christi College]], [[University of Oxford]] gaining an MA in law in 1876.<ref name="Lan"/> He was called to the bar at [[Lincoln's Inn]] in 1879.<ref>{{Who's Who | title=Seton-Karr, Sir Henry | id = U190821| type = was | volume = 1920–2014 | edition = April 2014 online | access-date = 30 May 2014 }}</ref> Seton-Karr owned a cattle ranch (Pick Ranch) in Wyoming, USA and was a director of Capitol Freehold Land and Investment Co.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/debrettshouseo1886londuoft Debretts Guide to the House of Commons 1886]</ref> He was an explorer, big game hunter and writer.


Seton-Karr was elected as the [[Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[St Helens (UK Parliament constituency)|St Helens]] in the [[1885 United Kingdom general election|1885 general election]] and held the seat until his defeat at the [[1906 United Kingdom general election|1906 general election]].<ref name="craig1885-1918">{{cite book
Seton-Karr was elected as the [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[St Helens (UK Parliament constituency)|St Helens]] in the [[1885 United Kingdom general election|1885 general election]] and held the seat until his defeat at the [[1906 United Kingdom general election|1906 general election]].<ref name="craig1885-1918">{{cite book
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}}</ref> A month later, he was among the new [[Knight Bachelor|knight bachelor]]s in the King′s [[1902 Birthday Honours]] list,<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Birthday Honours |date=10 November 1902 |page=10 |issue=36921}}</ref> and he was formally knighted on 18 December 1902.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue= 27513|date=6 January 1903|page=105}}</ref>
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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.<ref name="Lan"/>
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On 11 November 1880 Seton-Karr married Edith Eliza Pilkington (1860-1886), daughter of William Roby Pilkington and Elizabeth Lee Watson of [[Bowring Park, Knowsley|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).

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On 11 November 1880 Seton-Karr married Edith Eliza Pilkington (1860-1884), daughter of William Roby Pilkington and Elizabeth Lee Watson of [[Bowring Park, Knowsley|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.
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 ''[[Empress of Ireland]]'' sank in the [[St. Lawrence River]] when he was returning to England from a hunting trip in [[British Columbia]].<ref>[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7744139 Find a Grave]</ref> He was interred at the [[Mount Hermon Cemetery]], [[Sillery, Quebec City|Sillery]].
Seton-Karr died in the [[Sinking of the RMS Empress of Ireland|sinking]] of the [[RMS Empress of Ireland|RMS ''Empress of Ireland'']] on the [[Saint Lawrence River]], the worst maritime disaster in Canadian history; he was returning to England from a hunting trip in [[British Columbia]].<ref>[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7744139 Find a Grave]</ref> He was interred at the [[Mount Hermon Cemetery]], [[Sillery, Quebec City|Sillery]].


==Publications==
==Publications==
* Shores and Alps of Alaska (1887)
* [https://archive.org/details/shoresalpsofalas00seto ''Shores and Alps of Alaska''] (1887)
*Ten Years' Travel and Sport in Foreign Lands
* [https://archive.org/details/tenyearswildspor00setorich ''Ten Years' Wild Sports in Foreign Lands; Or, Travels in the Eighties''] (1889)
*A Handy Guide-Book to the Japanese Islands
*A Handy Guide-Book to the Japanese Islands
*''[https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/chung/chungpub/items/1.0056563 Bear-hunting in the White Mountains; or, Alaska and British Columbia revisted]'' (1891)
*''[https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/chung/chungpub/items/1.0056563 Bear-hunting in the White Mountains; or, Alaska and British Columbia revisted]'' (1891)
*"How I Shot My Lions" in ''Everybody's Magazine'' (January 1900)
*[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.319510009010966&view=1up&seq=443&q1=seton-karr "How I Shot My Lions"] in ''Everybody's Magazine'' (January 1900)
*[http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006558868 ''My Sporting Holidays''] (1904)
*[http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006558868 ''My Sporting Holidays''] (1904)
* Chapter in ''Early American Big Game Hunting'' (1905)
* Chapter in ''Early American Big Game Hunting'' (1905)
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Latest revision as of 19:44, 21 December 2024

Sir Henry Carba Seton-Karr
Born(1853-02-05)5 February 1853
U.K.
Died29 May 1914(1914-05-29) (aged 61)
RMS Empress of Ireland, St. Lawrence River
Resting placeMount Hermon Cemetery, Sillery, Quebec, Canada
Alma materCorpus 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 CMG DL (5 February 1853 – 29 May 1914) was an English explorer, hunter and author and a Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1906.

Seton-Karr, born in India in 1853, was the son of George Berkeley Seton-Karr, of the Indian Civil Service (resident Commissioner at Baroda during the Indian Mutiny);[1] and his wife Eleanor, the daughter of Henry Usborne of Branches Park, Suffolk. He was educated at Harrow School and Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford gaining an MA in law in 1876.[1] He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1879.[2] Seton-Karr owned a cattle ranch (Pick Ranch) in Wyoming, USA and was a director of Capitol Freehold Land and Investment Co.[3] He was an explorer, big game hunter and writer.

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 Deputy Lieutenant of Roxburghshire in 1896,[6] and was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in October 1902.[7] A month later, he was among the new knight bachelors in the King′s 1902 Birthday Honours list,[8] and he was formally knighted on 18 December 1902.[9]

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 the sinking of the RMS Empress of Ireland on the Saint Lawrence River, the worst maritime disaster in Canadian history; he was returning to England from a hunting trip in British Columbia.[10] He was interred at the Mount Hermon Cemetery, Sillery.

Publications

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "Mr H Seton-Karr, MP". Lancashire Faces & Places. 1 (6): 86. June 1901.
  2. ^ "Seton-Karr, Sir Henry". 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 membership required.)
  3. ^ Debretts Guide to the House of Commons 1886
  4. ^ Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 177. ISBN 0-900178-27-2.
  5. ^ Craig, op. cit., page 531
  6. ^ "No. 26797". The London Gazette. 24 November 1896. p. 6510.
  7. ^ "No. 27490". The London Gazette. 31 October 1902. p. 6910.
  8. ^ "Birthday Honours". The Times. No. 36921. London. 10 November 1902. p. 10.
  9. ^ "No. 27513". The London Gazette. 6 January 1903. p. 105.
  10. ^ Find a Grave
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