Thomas Seward

Thomas Seward (1708 – 4 March 1790) was an English Anglican clergyman, author and editor who was part of the Lichfield intellectual circle that included Samuel Johnson, Erasmus Darwin and his own daughter Anna Seward, amongst others.

John Hunter, headmaster of Lichfield grammar school, and was the father of Anna Seward the author.

The Duke promised some preferment for Seward: he became rector of Eyam in Derbyshire, and Kingsley, Staffordshire.

Seward also edited, with Thomas Sympson, the Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, and wrote the preface, 10 vols.

The monument was executed by John Bacon, and the verses which form part of the epitaph were the composition of Sir Walter Scott.