Baron Seaton

[1] It was created on 14 December 1839 for the soldier and colonial administrator Sir John Colborne.

He fought at the Battle of Waterloo and was Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada from 1828 to 1836, acting Governor General of British North America from 1837 to 1838 and Commander-in-Chief of North America from 1838 to 1839.

Lord Seaton married Elizabeth Beatrice (d. 1937), daughter of Sir Francis Fuller-Eliott-Drake, 2nd Baronet, of Nutwell Court and Buckland Abbey (a title which became extinct on his death in 1916), in 1887.

Lord Seaton was childless and on his death in 1933 the title passed to his younger brother, the fourth Baron.

Lord Seaton married Caroline Mabel, daughter of Sir Arthur Pendarves Vivian, in 1904.