Henry Osburne Seward

Partner in Seward and Davison (q.v.), merchants of British Guiana. Variously given in sources as Henry Osburne, Henry Osborn and Henry Osborne Seward. Fl. 1808-1812 in British Guiana.

1. Reportedly involved in the development of Wellington Square, Cork from 1832 onwards. Shown as of Lee Cottage and Douglas, County Cork and Newcastle County Limerick on the granting of arms 26/07/1844.

2. Shown in 1839 on the marriage of his daughter Anne Eliza to William Worth Hoare as of Sidney Place Cork, formerly of the West Indies where ha had been 'an extensive merchant.'

3. An opponent of James Cropper's scheme for Ireland.

T71/885 British Guiana claim nos. 982 and 983; T71/887 British Guiana claim no. 2064.

1. Social Housing Development Company Limited, 'Wellington Square' which describes Seward as 'a Cork landlord', http://www.co-opsocialhousingdev.org/Pages/wellington_square.html [accessed 01/03/2011]; Landed Estates Database item # 27195, which gives as the reference 'Genealogical Office MS 107 pp. 296-7' http://www.landedestates.ie/LandedEstates/jsp/refsource-show.jsp?id=1 [accessed 01/03/2011].

2. Edward Hoare, 'Some account of the early history and genealogy of...the families of Hoare and Hore...' [1853] http://www.archive.org/stream/someaccountofear00hoar/someaccountofear00hoar_djvu.txt [accessed 01/03/2011].

3. Kenneth Charlton 'James Cropper's Plan: the state of Ireland in the 1820s', Irish Historical Studies, Vol. 17, No. 67, March 1971, pp. 320-339.