Sir Albert Charles Seward FRS[1] (9 October 1863 – 11 April 1941) was a British botanist and geologist.

His first education was at Lancaster Grammar School and he then went on to St John's College, Cambridge, intending to fulfil parents' wish that he would dedicate his life to the Church.

[2] His boyhood interest in botany and zoology soon resurfaced, helped along by inspiring lectures from William Crawford Williamson.

[5] Seward's studies of Mesozoic palaeobotany earned him membership of the Royal Society at the youthful age of thirty-five.

In 1935 he published a study on the floral carvings in the chapter house of Southwell Minster.