Henry Seton-Karr, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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British politician
Date of Birth: 05-Feb-1853
Place of Birth: United Kingdom
Date of Death: 29-May-1914
Profession: politician
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Henry Seton-Karr
- Sir Henry Seton-Karr (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 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, University of Oxford gaining an MA in Law and was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1879.
- Seton-Karr owned a cattle ranch (Pick Ranch) in Wyoming, USA and was a director of Capitol Freehold Land and Investment Co.
- 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.
- He did not stand again in St Helens, but at the January 1910 general election he stood unsuccessfully in Berwickshire.He became a Deputy Lieutenant of Roxburghshire in 1896, and was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in October 1902.On 11 November 1880 Seton-Karr married Edith Eliza Pilkington (1860-1886), 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 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.
- He was interred at the Mount Hermon Cemetery, Sillery.
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