Seale baronets

The Seale Baronetcy, of Mount Boone in the County of Devon, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.[2] It was created on 31 July 1838 for John Henry Seale, Whig Member of Parliament for Dartmouth from 1832 to 1844. The second Baronet was sixteen times Mayor of Dartmouth.[3]

Arms of Seale: Or, two barrulets azure between three wolf's heads erased sable in the fess point a mural crown gules[1]

The family descended from John Seale (born c.1512) of St Brelade in Jersey, a descendant of Robert Seale (or Scelle) a gens de bien of St Brelade 1292.[4] In 1720 the 1st Baronet's grandfather John Seale, purchased the estate of Mount Boone near Dartmouth. The latter's great-grandfather was John Seale, Constable of St Brelade 1644–51, the son of John Seale, Constable of St Brelade 1615–21.[5]

Seale baronets, of Mount Boone (1838)
  • Sir John Henry Seale, 1st Baronet (1780–1844)
  • Sir Henry Paul Seale, 2nd Baronet (1806–1897)
  • Sir John Henry Seale, 3rd Baronet (1843–1914)
  • Sir John Carteret Hyde Seale, 4th Baronet (1881–1964)
  • Sir John Henry Seale, 5th Baronet (1921–2017)[6]
  • Sir (John) Robert Charters Seale, 6th Baronet (born 1954)

The heir apparent is the present holder's son Christopher Charles Seale (born 2002).

Notes
  1. Kidd, Charles, Debrett's peerage & Baronetage 2015 Edition, London, 2015, p.B716
  2. "No. 19631". The London Gazette. 3 July 1838. p. 1488.
  3. Kidd, Charles, Debrett's peerage & Baronetage 2015 Edition, London, 2015, p.B716
  4. Kidd, Charles, Debrett's peerage & Baronetage 2015 Edition, London, 2015, p.B716, quoting "Payne's Armorial of Jersey"
  5. Debrett's 2015, p.B716
  6. "Sir John Seale, 5th Baronet [1921-2017]". Peerage News. 10 February 2017.

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