Sir Henry Seton-Karr (5 February 1853 – 29 May 1914) was an English explorer, hunter and author and a

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politician who sat in the

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from 1885 to 1906. Seton-Karr, born in India in 1853, was the son of George Berkeley Seton-Karr, of the Indian Civil Service (resident Commissioner at

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during the

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); and his wife Eleanor, the daughter of Henry Usborne of Branches Park, Suffolk. He was educated at

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and Corpus Christi College,

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gaining an MA in law in 1876. He was called to the bar at

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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

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(MP) for St Helens in the 1885 general election and held the seat until his defeat at the

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. He did not stand again in St Helens, but at the

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he stood unsuccessfully in

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. He became a Deputy Lieutenant of

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in 1896. and was made a

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(CMG) in October 1902. He was also Chairman of the Liverpool, St Helens and South Lancashire Railway at the time of its opening in 1900 and Chairman of the Lancashire and Cheshire Workingmen's Federation in the late 1890s. 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

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/ref> He was interred at the Mount Hermon Cemetery, Sillery.

Publications

''Shores and Alps of Alaska''
(1887)
''Ten Years' Wild Sports in Foreign Lands; Or, Travels in the Eighties''
(1889) *A Handy Guide-Book to the Japanese Islands *
Bear-hunting in the White Mountains; or, Alaska and British Columbia revisted
' (1891)
"How I Shot My Lions"
in ''Everybody's Magazine'' (January 1900)
''My Sporting Holidays''
(1904) * Chapter in ''Early American Big Game Hunting'' (1905)

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Seton-Karr, Sir Henry 1853 births 1914 deaths People educated at Harrow School Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Knights Bachelor UK MPs 1885–1886 UK MPs 1886–1892 UK MPs 1892–1895 UK MPs 1895–1900 UK MPs 1900–1906 Deaths due to shipwreck Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George Deputy Lieutenants of Roxburghshire Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Oxford Members of Lincoln's Inn Accidental deaths in Quebec Burials at Mount Hermon Cemetery