{{short description|British politician and distiller}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2024}} {{Use British English|date=August 2016}} [[File:SirFrederickSeagerHuntVanityFair1893.JPG|right|thumb|Caricature of Sir Frederick Seager Hunt drawn by Leslie Ward, appearing in ''Vanity Fair'' in May 1893.]] '''Sir Frederick Seager Hunt, 1st Baronet''' (27 April 1838 – 21 January 1904)<ref>{{Rayment-hc|m|1|date=March 2012}}</ref> was a British Conservative Party politician, and a prominent distiller.

==Background and education== Hunt was born in Chippenham, Wiltshire, the second son of James Edward Hunt and Eliza Seager, eldest daughter of the distiller James Lys Seager. He attended school at St Peter's College, Westminster.

==Business career== Seager Evans and Co. was founded by Hunt's Grandfather James Lys Seager and William Evans. In 1864 Hunt became a partner, and in 1872 the prior partnership with Richard and Christopher Wilson was dissolved, leaving just Frederick and James as partners in the business. James Lys Seager died a year later, making Frederick the sole proprietor from then on. During the time Hunt was involved with the company, the distillery was sited at Millbank in London, although it later moved to Deptford, in the 1920s. Their most famous product was Seagers Gin.

==Political career== Hunt was elected at the 1885 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for Marylebone West.<ref name="craig1885-1918">{{cite book |last=Craig |first=F. W. S. |authorlink= F. W. S. Craig |title=British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 |orig-date=1974 |edition= 2nd |year=1989 |publisher= Parliamentary Research Services |location=Chichester |isbn= 0-900178-27-2 |page=35 }}</ref> He was re-elected in 1886 and 1892, but at the 1895 general election he stood instead in Maidstone, where he was returned unopposed.<ref>Craig, op. cit., page 147</ref> He resigned his seat in 1898 by becoming Steward of the Manor of Northstead.<ref name="hoc-resignations">{{cite web |url=http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons/lib/research/briefings/snpc-04731.pdf |title=Appointments to the Chiltern Hundreds and Manor of Northstead Stewardships since 1850 |author=Department of Information Services |publisher=House of Commons Library |date=9 June 2009 |accessdate=30 November 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110206041753/http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons/lib/research/briefings/snpc-04731.pdf |archivedate=6 February 2011 }}</ref> He was created a '''Baronet''', of Cromwell Road in the parish of Saint Mary Abbots, Kensington, in the County of London, in 1892.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=26334 |date=14 October 1892 |page=5735 }}</ref> {{Infobox hereditary title | name = Hunt baronets | image = File:Escutcheon of the Hunt Baronets of Cromwell Road (1892).svg | image_size = 220px | alt = | caption = Escutcheon of the Hunt Baronets of Cromwell Road | creation_date = 1892<ref name="WW">{{Who's Who|title=Hunt, Sir Frederick Seager|id=U187392|access-date=1 August 2023}}</ref> | status = extinct | extinction_date = 1904<ref name="WW"/> | family_seat = | former_seat = | motto = }}

== References == {{Reflist}}

== Sources == *[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=074-bsgr&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18#-1 National Archives Records for Seager Evans and Co. Ltd.] *[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/census/ 1841 Census, National Archives] *Vanity Fair, May 1893

== External links == * {{Hansard-contribs | mr-frederick-hunt | Sir Frederick Seager Hunt, Bt }}

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