Charles Seale-Hayne

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 a farming and food science 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

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