Monday, 14 March 2016

1147 Charles Seale-Hayne




Constituency : Ashburton  1885-1903

Charles  won  the  new  seat  of  Ashburton.

Charles  was  educated  at  Eton  and  was  a  London  barrister. He  was  the  first  chairman  of  the  Dartmouth  and  Torbay  Railway  and  a  considerable  landowner  in  Devon.

Charles  was  appointed  Paymaster-General  by  Gladstone  in  1892  and  held  the  office  until  1895.

He  died  in  1903  aged  70. He  endowed  a  farming  and  food  science  college  in  his  will  which  later  became  part  of  Plymouth  University.

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