Sir Charles Seely, 1st Baronet

Colonel Sir Charles Seely, 1st Baronet KGStJ, DL (11 August 1833 – 16 April 1915) was a British industrialist and politician.

His father, Charles Seely (1803–1887), was a member of parliament and one of the wealthiest industrialists of the Victorian era.

His grandson, David Seely, 4th Baron Mottistone, was the last Governor of the Isle of Wight; he was baptised with Winston Churchill and the then Duke of Cornwall (subsequently King Edward VIII, and then later Duke of Windsor) as his godparents.

1946), actress, partner of Serge Gainsbourg in the 1970s and namesake of the Hermès Birkin bag.

[4][5][6] The Michael Seely Memorial Stakes held at York was named in honour of their eldest son, the racing correspondent.

When Seely died in 1915 he left estate of £1,052,070 (equivalent to £641 million (in 2014), or £75 million (in 2015), obtained by multiplying £1,052,070.00 by the percentage increase in the RPI since 1915), as measured by share of UK GDP, UK CPI), which was according to The Times, the second largest estate that year (by comparison the estate of Nathan Mayer Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild was the largest valued at £2,500,000) and made him one of the wealthiest men in Britain.