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"SIR HENRY SETON-KARR (1853-1914), British big-game hunter, was born in India Feb. 5 185 3. Educated at Harrow and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, he was called to the bar in 1879, but developed a taste for travel and big-game hunting which carried him all over the world. He also interested himself in state colonization and was a member of the Royal Commission on Food Supplies in Time of War. He published The Call to Arms (1900-I) and My Sporting Holidays (1904). He represented S.W. Lancs. (St. Helens) in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1906 and was knighted in 1902. He lost his life when the " Empress of Ireland ". sank in the river St. Lawrence May 29 1914.