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Seabury may refer to:
- Seabury, Dublin
- Seabury (name)
- Seabury Commission, a commission investigating corruption in New York City in 1930-32
- Seabury Hall, a college preparatory high school in Hawaii
- Bishop Seabury Academy, a college preparatory high school in Kansas
- Merchant's House Museum or Seabury Tredwell House, in the Bowery, Manhattan
Seabury is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:
Surname:
- Ruth Isabel Seabury (1892–1955), American missionary, writer and educator
- Samuel Seabury (1729–1796), American Episcopal bishop
- Samuel Seabury (1801–1872), rector of the Church of the Annunciation in New York City
- Samuel Seabury (judge) (1873–1958), judge of the New York Court of Appeals
Given name:
- Seabury Ford (1801–1855), Governor of Ohio
- Seabury C. Mastick (1871–1969), New York politician
- Seabury Quinn (1889–1969), American pulp fiction author
Usage examples of "seabury".
If the directors of Seabury were worried, they would surely have called in their own investigator.
But four- Dunstable, Seabury, Sandown and Chepstow-were public companies, and their shares could be bought in open market, through the stock exchange.
It wasn’t my fault, but I’d persuaded him that he stood more chance at Seabury, and he blamed me because in the end the horse stayed at home eating his head off for nothing.
He says there’s a jinx on Seabury, and I’ve a couple more owners who don’t like me entering their horses there.
We’ve been trying to trace the buyer of Seabury shares through the stock exchange, and we can find no definite lead to Kraye.
There’s the capital gains tax, of course, but Seabury shareholders stand to make eight hundred per cent on their original investment, if the scheme goes through.
I went to Company House in the city yesterday and looked up the Seabury balance sheets for the last few years, and I rang for a quotation of today’s share price from a stockbroker this morning.
I was left with the photographs of the bank notes, of share dealings which had nothing to do with Seabury, and the two sheets of figures I had found under the writing board at the bottom of the case.
She was working down the first page of a list of Seabury shareholders.
Illegal for Kraye to send letters to Seabury shareholders offering to buy them out: legal for Bolt.
I don’t think Captain Oxon’s feelings are more important than Seabury Racecourse.
It might have given him the idea of accelerating the demise of Seabury, though.
I reflected that it was a pity Seabury had a clerk of the course whose heart and home were far away on the thriving course at Bristol.
If I’d been arranging things, I’d have seen to it a year ago, when the profits turned to loss, that Seabury had a new clerk entirely devoted to its own interests, someone moreover whose livelihood depended on its staying open.
The bungle, delay, muddle, too much politeness and failure to take action showed by the Seabury executive had been of inestimable value to the quietly burrowing Kraye.