Henry Seton Karr (1853 - 1914)

Born 5 Feb 1853 in Bombay, India

Ancestors

Died 29 May 1914 at age 61 in Saint-Lawrence river, Québec, Canada

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Biographie

Henry Seton Karr is Notable.

Ce profil est un passager de l'Empress of Ireland qui a sombré le 29 mai 1914, où il périt

Sir Henry Seton Karr

Né en Inde, Sir Henry Seton Karr est avocat de formation. Il est aussi membre du Parlement britannique. C’est un amateur de plein-air : chasse au grand gibier, alpinisme, golf et pêche au saumon. L’écriture, également, occupe beaucoup de son temps. En mai 1914, Sir Henry embarque sur l’Empress of Ireland en 1ière classe. Il retourne en Europe après un voyage de chasse en Co­lombie-Britannique. La chasse a été bonne, car il a tué un orignal de taille moyenne. Le panache de la bête est transporté dans la cale de l’Empress of Ireland, au départ de Québec. Sir Henry Seton Karr, alors âgé de 61 ans, ne survivra pas au naufrage. Il repose au cimetière Mount Hermon de Sillery, à Québec.

Une section de panache a été récupérée dans l’épave, à la fin des années 1980, par un plongeur ontarien, John Reekie. Il s’agit proba­blement du trophée de chasse de Sir Henry, puisqu'en 1914, il n'était pas coutume d’accrocher des panaches d’orignaux au mur.

Biography

Henry Seton Karr is Notable.

This profile is a passenger of the Empress of Ireland, which sank on May 29th 1914, where he perished.

listed as being from London England in one list of passengers

Sir Henry Seton Karr

Sir Henry Seton Karr CMG DL (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 who was 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.

Seton Karr died in Canada's greatest 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.

On November 11, 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 (September 12, 1881), Malcolm Henry (born October 21, 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 October 6, 1888) and Kenneth William (born March 21, 1897).

above from wikipedia

SETON KARR, SIR HENRY, Knt., C.M.G., M.P., J.P. and D.L. for Roxburghshire, of Kippilaw, St. Boswells, N.B. ; of 22, Sloane Gardens, S.W., and of the Carlton, Imperial Service and New (Edinburgh) Clubs ; is the son of G. Berkeley Seton-Karr, of the Madras Civil Service, who was Resident Commissioner at Belgaum, Southern Mahratta, during the great Mutiny. He was born Feb. 5, 1853, in India, and educated at Harrow and Oxford, where he took honours in law and graduated M.A. In 1879 he was called to the Bar, and practised on the Northern Circuit. He was elected to Parliament for St. Helen's, Lanes., in 1885, and has held his seat through five contested elections, increasing his majority from 57 to 1,878. He is greatly interested in State colonization and the national food supply in time of war. He was elected as a member of the Royal Commission appointed to consider this subject in 1903, and originated the Sharpshooters' Corps for service in S.A. in 1899. During the years 1900-01-02 he acted as Vice-Chairman and Hon. Secy, of the Sharpshooters' Committee, who sent out three and half battalions (18th, 21st, 23rd I.Y.) for service during the war. For this he received his C.M.G. He was Chairman of the Liverpool, St. Helens, and S. Lancashire Railway Co. ; Vice-Chairman of the Widnes and Runcorn Bridge Co., and a Director of various other cos. Sir Henry is widely known as a keen sportsman, having shot big game in S.A., Western America, Norway, British-Columbia, and Scotland. He has a very fine collection of big game sporting trophies, including buffalo, antelope, grizzly, black bear and mountain lion, and has an elk forest in Norway. His publications include The Call to Arms" (1901), and many sporting articles and reviews. He married: first, in Nov., 1880, Edith, daughter of the late W. Pilkington, D.L., of Roby Hall, Liverpool, who died in 1884 ; and second, in 1886, Janie, eldest daughter of W. Thorburn of Edinburgh.

from ANGLO -AFRICAN WHO'S WHO courtesy of Luke Ridley

Sources

• http://www.empress2014.ca/tragedie.html

• http://www.empress2014.ca/listepsc1.html

• http://www.empress2014.ca/accueil.html

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Empress_of_Ireland

• Empress of Ireland 1st class passengers List, Compiled by Geoffrey E Whitfield and Chris Stringer,

• http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/maritime/visit/floor-plan/liners/empress/sinking.aspx

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Seton-Karr