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Monarch
  
Victoria

Name
  
Charles Seale-Hayne

Preceded by
  
The Lord Windsor

Role
  
British Politician

Nationality
  
British

Party
  
Liberal Party

Political party
  

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Prime Minister
  
William Ewart GladstoneThe Earl of Rosebery

Born
  
22 October 1833 (
1833-10-22
)

Died
  
November 22, 1903, Mayfair, London, United Kingdom

Succeeded by
  
John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow

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. 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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The special collections at the charles seale hayne library plymouth university


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. He served under William Ewart Gladstone and later the Earl of Rosebery as Paymaster-General from 1892 to 1895 and was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1892. 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. 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

Charles Seale-Hayne Wikipedia


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