Background
Supported by his mother, he then became a journalist. During a visit to Manchester, Seally persuaded an heiress to elope with him but her father caught up with them at Worcester.
Supported by his mother, he then became a journalist. During a visit to Manchester, Seally persuaded an heiress to elope with him but her father caught up with them at Worcester.
Born in Somerset, he was educated at Bristol grammar school, with a view to ordination.
He worked as a writing-master and accountants Around 1767 he established a school in Bridgwater Square, Westminster, and after some years took holy orders. During a stay in Rome in 1774 he obtained admission to the Accademia degli Arcadi by a eulogy on Maria Maddelana Fernandez Corilla, poet-laureate of Italy.
In 1790 he was presented to the vicarage of East Meon with Froxfield and Steep.
Seally was elected fellow of the Royal Society on 30 June 1791, and was also Master of Arts and Doctor of Laws He died in Queen Square, Westminster, in March 1795. A correspondent in the Evangelical Magazine mentioned that Seally had been chaplain to the Earl of Kintore, was buried in Ellisfield, Hampshire, and was aged 49 on his death.
Seally married (as he thought) in 1766, a reputedly rich widow of twice his age, but found, some years later, that she had no money and had a husband, the Review William Lewis.
Royal Society.