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6 unusual facts about Seton


Andrew Murray, 1st Lord Balvaird

During the visit of Charles I to Scotland for his coronation in 1633 he was, on 15 June, dubbed a knight at Seton.

Linda Fox-Mellway

In May 2010, Fox-Mellway worked with the Seton Community Association to place a $70 million recreation facility in that community.

Seton-La Salle Catholic High School

Tom Donahoe, former GM and president of the Buffalo Bills, and former director of football operations of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Kevin Salvadori, former North Carolina Tar Heels basketball, member of 1993 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship team and NBA star.

Seton-Watson

Hugh Seton-Watson (1916–1984), British historian and political scientist

Robert William Seton-Watson (1879–1951), also known by the pseudonym Scotus Viator, British political activist and historian


Alexander Gordon, 1st Earl of Huntly

He was the son of Alexander Seton, Lord Gordon (d. 1440) (2nd son of Sir William Seton of that Ilk), by his spouse Elizabeth Gordon (d. 16 March 1439), daughter and heiress of Sir Adam Gordon of that Ilk.

Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Huntly (died 15 July 1470) at some point he began using his mother's family family name of Gordon, possibly when he succeeded his father as Lord Gordon.

Alexander Seton, 1st Viscount of Kingston

Sir Alexander Seton, 1st Viscount of Kingston (13 March 1620 – 21 October 1691), a Cavalier, was the first dignity Charles II conferred as King.

Algona, Iowa

The Catholic school system is made up of Bishop Garrigan High School(named after the first bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sioux City) and Seton Elementary (named for St. Elizabeth Ann Seton).

Bill Raftery

His 154 wins as a coach places him fourth on the all-time list at Seton Hall behind Honey Russell, P.J. Carlesimo, and Frank Hill.

Catherine Seton

Catherine Josephine Seton (28 June 1800-3 April 1891) was the daughter of Elizabeth Ann Seton, founder Sisters of Charity of St.

Cayoosh Creek

A store was also located in this area, operated by Dan Hurley, a Lillooet rancher and hotelier, as this was the route of the wagon road from the foot of Seton Lake, the last water leg of the Douglas Road, into Lillooet.

Chip Hilton

Chip was based on Seton Hall basketball player Bob Davies, and Chip's coach, Henry "The Rock" Rockwell, was based on Bee himself.

David Pagel

The Smiths (Seton Smith, Kiki Smith and Tony Smith) by Gilbert Brownstone, Eleanor Heartney and David Pagel

George Seton, Lord Seton

Seton suffered great hardships at the hands of the rebels during the English Civil War, and his father had to sell family estates long held in Linlithgowshire, that of Niddry Castle and one at Winchburgh, to rescue him from imprisonment.

Seton showed great military abilities and was firmly attached to the Royalist cause.

Gertrude Sanford Legendre

Katharine Hepburn’s character of Linda Seton in the 1938 version of Holiday was loosely based on her.

Glenn Seton Racing

Seton came close to winning the 1995 Tooheys 1000 in the new EF model Falcon, retiring due to a broken engine valve spring whilst in the lead with only eight laps to run.

Joel Dolinski

In 2005, Dolinski joined head football coach Chris Snyder's staff at Seton Hill University for the inaugural football season.

Marie Seton

In 1935 Seton helped to establish the reputation of Jamaican sculptor Ronald Moody.

According to her friend, Pamela Cullen, Seton "had a fascination for India and as a young woman she had been introduced to India’s fight for independence by one of India’s greatest political figures, Krishna Menon, who was then a struggling lawyer in London. She also had family associations with India through her father, who had served as an officer in the Indian Army and been seriously wounded during one of the many uprisings of the period".

Mary Seton

In March 1569 the Earl of Shrewsbury noted that Queen Mary would sit and sew in his wife Bess of Hardwick's chamber at Tutbury Castle accompanied by Mary Seton and Lady Livingston.

When Queen Mary was moved to Sheffield Castle in September 1571, Mary Seton stayed in attendance, but her servant John Dumfries was excluded and kept in the town.

Mary Watts

Mary Fraser Tytler, married name Mary Seton Watts, (1849–1938), English architect, artist and social reformer

Robert Seton

He was the fourth of William and Emily (Prime) Seton's seven children; the grandson of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, founder of the American Sisters of Charity in 1809; and cousin of Archbishop James Roosevelt Bayley, first bishop of Newark and founder of Seton Hall University in 1856.

Scout Law

According to the original U.S. handbook (Seton and Baden-Powell 1911, p. 31), which elaborated on the British version, the founders drew inspiration for the Scout Law from the Bushido code of the Japanese Samurai (Baden-Powell and Seton), laws of honor of the American Indians (Seton), the code of chivalry of European knights (Baden-Powell), and the Zulu fighters Baden-Powell had fought against (Baden-Powell).

Seton Lake First Nation

The Seton Lake First Nation, aka the Seton Lake Indian Band, is a First Nations government located in the Central Interior-Fraser Canyon region of the Canadian province of British Columbia.

Sir Home Gordon, 12th Baronet

Sir Home Seton Charles Montagu Gordon, 12th Baronet Gordon of Embo, Sutherland (30 September 1871 – 9 September 1956 at Rottingdean, East Sussex) was a journalist and author who was best known for his writing on cricket.

St. Elizabeth Seton School Naples Florida

Elizabeth Seton Catholic School (often abbreviated to SES) is a co-educational parish private, Roman Catholic elementary and middle school in Naples, Florida.

St. Joseph's College and Mother Seton Shrine

Joseph's College and Mother Seton Shrine are two closely related campuses in Emmitsburg, Maryland.

Thomas Seton

In April 2008, the British Culture Minister, Margaret Hodge, placed a temporary export bar on ‘a rare likeness of Alexander Dalrymple', by John Thomas Seton. Dalrymple was the first Hydrographer to the Admiralty, who ‘through his pioneering work on nautical charts, is a pivotal figure in the development of the global maritime industry as well as of the British Empire’.

U.S. Route 15 in Maryland

The Seton Shrine comprises the Basilica of the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton and St. Joseph's Provincial House of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul.

Walter Scott, 1st Lord Scott of Buccleuch

# Margaret Scott (died 5 October 1651) married first James Ross, 6th Lord Ross; married second Sir Alexander Seton of Foulstruther, later Montgomerie, 6th Earl of Eglinton

Werkman

Nick Werkman, an American former basketball player for the Seton Hall Pirates

William Seton

His father was William Seton II, captain in the U. S. Navy, son of Elizabeth Ann Seton; his mother was Emily Prime.

Burke's Peerage (1900) recognized him as the head of the Seton family of Parbroath, senior cadets of the earls of Winton in Scotland.


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