Jonathan Seaver

Jonathan Charles Billing Pockerage Seaver (born 7 June 1855, date of death unknown) was an Irish-born Australian politician, engineer and surveyor.

He was born at Kingstown near Dublin, the eldest son of Thomas Seaver and arrived in Victoria around 1857.

At sixteen he became a tutor and after an abortive attempt at a church career worked as an engineer and surveyor.

[1] He traveled widely, spending some time in Adelaide, where he married Mary Robinson née Abbott on 22 November 1880,[2] before settling in Gloucester.

In 1887 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Free Trade member for Gloucester and retained the seat in 1889.