John Seely Hart

John Hart (January 28, 1810 – March 26, 1877) was an American author and educator.

Biography

Childhood

Professor Hart was born in Old Stockbridge, Berkshire County, Massachusetts on January 28, 1810. When he was two years old, his father, with a number of other heads of families, removed to Pennsylvania and settled in Providence township, on the Lackawanna River, but in 1823, removed to Laurel Run, in the Wyoming Valley, about two miles from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

Education

His health in early youth was delicate, and his physical strength small. He completed preparatory studies at Wilkes-Barre Academy, and entered the College of New Jersey at Princeton, (now Princeton University), in 1827, and was graduated in 1830, with the highest honors of his class. During the year following his graduation, he taught, as Principal of an Academy at Natchez, Mississippi, and in 1831 returned to Princeton and entered the Theological Seminary.

Presbyterian ministry

He spent three years there, and was regularly graduated in 1834. During the last two years of his course, he filled the position of Tutor in the college. In 1834 he was elected Adjunct Professor of Ancient Languages in Princeton College, and filled that chair two years.

J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone

John Edward Bernard Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone CB CMG DSO TD PC JP DL (31 May 1868 – 7 November 1947) was a British soldier and politician. He was a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) from 1900 to 1904 and a Liberal MP from 1904 to 1922 and from 1923 to 1924. He was Secretary of State for War for the two years prior to World War I, before being forced to resign as a result of the Curragh Incident. As General Jack Seely, he led one of the last great cavalry charges in history at the Battle of Moreuil Wood on his war horse Warrior in March 1918. Seely was a great friend of Winston Churchill and the only former cabinet minister to go to the front in 1914 and still be there four years later.

Early life

Jack Seely was the son of Sir Charles Seely, 1st Baronet. He was educated at Harrow School, where he met Stanley Baldwin and Winston Churchill, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. Churchill became a lifelong friend. He was later called to the Bar, Inner Temple. Seely served in the Hampshire Yeomanry, where he was appointed Captain on 31 May 1892. Following the outbreak of the Second Boer War he commissioned as a captain in the Imperial Yeomanry on 7 February 1900, having succeeded in arranging transport to South Africa for his squadron the same week, with the assistance of his uncle Sir Francis Evans, 1st Baronet, chairman of the Union Castle Line. He was mentioned in despatches, awarded a medal with four clasps as well as the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) in November 1900. He was known as "Colonel Seely" during his time as a politician before the First World War. Seely was appointed a deputy lieutenant of the Isle of Wight in 1902.

John Robert Seeley

Sir John Robert Seeley, KCMG (10 September 1834 in London – 13 January 1895 in Cambridge) was an English essayist and historian.

Life

Seeley was born in London, the son of R. B. Seeley, a publisher and author of several religious books and of The Life and Times of Edward I. After developing a taste for religious and historical subjects, Seeley was educated at the City of London School and at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he was head of the classical tripos and senior chancellor's medallist, was elected fellow and became classical tutor of his college. For a time he was a master at his old school, and in 1863 was appointed professor of Latin at University College, London. He was made Regius Professor of Modern History, Cambridge in 1869.

In August 1869 Seeley married Mary Agnes Phillot, who survived him. He is buried in the Mill Road cemetery, Cambridge, with his wife.

Works

Seeley's essay Ecce Homo (published anonymously in 1866 and afterwards acknowledged by him) was widely read, and prompted many replies, being deemed an attack on Christianity. Dealing only with Christ's humanity, it dwells on his work as the founder and king of a theocratic state, and points out the effect which this society, his church, has had upon the standard and active practice of morality among men. Seeley intended the book as "a fragment" and the text did not deny the truth of those doctrines it did not address, but many critics still found fault with its treatment of Christ. Many considered the book to be valuable not only in its content but also in its style, which is characterised by relatively terse and fluid writing.