Charles Seale-Hayne

The Right Honourable Charles Seale-Hayne PC
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 (1833-10-22)
Died	22 November 1903 (1903-11-23) Mayfair, London
Nationality	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.

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

1. ^ London Gazette: no. 25541. p. 6133. 18 December 1885.
2. ^ leighrayment.com House of Commons: Arundel to Ayrshire South
3. ^ hansard.millbanksystems.com Mr Charles Seale-Hayne
4. ^ London Gazette: no. 26320. p. 4881. 26 August 1892.
5. ^ kensalgreen.co.uk
6. ^ damehannah.com

• 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 1885–1903	Succeeded by Harry Trelawney Eve
Political offices
Preceded by The Lord Windsor	Paymaster-General 1892–1895	Succeeded by The Earl of Hopetoun

Persondata
Name	Seale-Hayne, Charles
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	22 October 1833
Place of birth
Date of death	22 November 1903
Place of death	Mayfair, London