Lieutenant-General Edward Seager CB (1812–1883) was a British Army officer who served in the Crimean War and in the Indian Mutiny.
Seager, was born on 11 June 1812, and, after serving in the ranks for nine years and one hundred and eighty-eight days from 1832, became a cornet of the 8th Light Dragoons on 17 September 1841.
His daughter Emily married Charles Edwin Paynter, president of the Liverpool Timber Trade Association, who was lost in the 1915 sinking of the RMS Lusitania.
[1] He served with his regiment in the Crimean War of 1854, and up to February 1855, and was present at the battles of Alma, Balaclava (where he was wounded), Inkerman, and the siege of Sebastopol.
On 28 June 1855 he was appointed assistant military secretary to Major-general Lord William Paulet, commanding on the Bosphorus, and continued in the same office under Sir Henry Knight Storks until the end of the war on 31 July 1856, when he was rewarded with a medal and four clasps, the fifth class of Medjidie, and the Turkish medal.