Frederick Seager Hunt

Sir Frederick Seager Hunt, 1st Baronet (27 April 1838 – 21 January 1904)[1] was a British Conservative Party politician, and a prominent distiller.

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.

[2] He was re-elected in 1886 and 1892, but at the 1895 general election he stood instead in Maidstone, where he was returned unopposed.

[4] He was created a Baronet, of Cromwell Road in the parish of Saint Mary Abbots, Kensington, in the County of London, in 1892.

Caricature of Sir Frederick Seager Hunt drawn by Leslie Ward , appearing in Vanity Fair in May 1893.