Henry Hake Seward (c.1778 - 19 January 1848)[1][2] was an English architect who practised in the early 19th century.
[6][7] One of Seward's most notable buildings was Bristol's New Gaol, in Cumberland Road, which opened in 1820 at a cost of £60,000 (c. £2 million at 2017 prices).
It held 197 men and women in single cells, and at the time was regarded as a model prison.
[9] In this role, his duties included supervision of payments relating to a building to house Charles Babbage's Difference engine.
[10] He died in January 1848 and was buried in the churchyard at St John the Baptist in West Wickham, Kent.