Owen Seaman

[3] Seaman's first successful submission to the satirical and humorous magazine Punch was "Rhyme of the Kipperling", an 1894 parody of Rudyard Kipling.

A. Milne, author of the Winnie-the-Pooh stories, worked as his assistant; it is thought that Seaman's dour disposition may have been the inspiration behind the gloomy character of Eeyore.

During the war, he wrote "number of verses of a somewhat mindless, patriotic kind, reflecting the optimism and devotion to his native land rather than the stirrings of poetic genius," as anthologist John M. Munro put it.

[5] In 1915, he published War Time, a book of poetry that Munro described as "a mixture of satiric verse and patriotic doggerel."

He is buried in Putney Vale Cemetery; his epitaph reads "He sleeps, immortal by the spirit – Balm of universal love."

Sir Owen Seaman, Bt.
Two granite headstones, shaped as pointed arches, on a single family grave
Seaman's grave at Putney Vale Cemetery , London, in 2015