Seward, Anna, 1742-1809, English poet, called the Swan of Lichfield. A member of the Lichfield literary group, which included Thomas Day and Erasmus Darwin, she was acquainted also with Dr. Johnson and James Boswell. She bequeathed her literary works to Sir Walter Scott, who edited them (3 vol., 1810).

Seward is the name of a number of people and places:

People

Family name

• Adam Seward (born 1982), National Football League player
• Albert Charles Seward (1863 - 1941), British botanist and geologist, winner of the 1934 Darwin Medal
• Anna Seward (1747 - 1809), English writer of the 19th century
• Danny Seward (born 1976), British actor
• Ed Seward (1867- 1947), Major League Baseball pitcher
• Frances Adeline Seward (1805 - 1865), wife of William H. Seward, Sr., a First Lady of New York State
• Frederick W. Seward (1830 - 1915), son of William H. Seward, Sr., two-time Assistant Secretary of State
• George Seward (1840 - 1910), U.S. diplomat, envoy to China 1876 - 1880
• Harold H. Seward, developer in 1954 of the Radix sort computer algorithm
• James Lindsay Seward (1813 - 1886), American politician, U.S. Representative from Georgia 1853 - 1859
• Julian Seward, developer of bzip2, an open-source data compression program
• Olive Risley Seward (1844 - 1908), adopted daughter of William H. Seward, Sr.
• Terry Maxwell Seward, geochemist for whom the mineral Sewardite is named
• Vern Seward, American technology writer
• Walter H. Seward (1896–2008), American supercentenarian
• William E. Seward, abolitionist who sold some land in upstate New York to Harriet Tubman
• William H. Seward [Sr.] (1801 - 1872), Governor of New York, U.S. Senator, and Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln
• William H. Seward, Jr. (1839 - 1920), son of William H. Seward, Sr., a brigadier general for the Union during the Civil War

First name

• Seward Collins (1899 - 1952), publisher of The American Review, prominent pre-World War II proponent of fascism
• Seward Smith, American politician, associate justice of the Dakota Territory Supreme Court

Fictional

• John Seward, character in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula

Places: United States

• Seward's Folly, an early derisive name for the Alaska purchase

Counties

• Seward County, Kansas
• Seward County, Nebraska

Cities and towns

• Seward, Alaska
• Seward, Illinois
• Seward Township, Kendall County, Illinois
• Seward Township, Winnebago County, Illinois
• Seward, Kansas
• Seward Township, Minnesota
• Seward, Nebraska
• Seward, New York
• Seward, North Carolina
• Seward, Pennsylvania

Other

• Seward Highway, Alaska
• Seward Peninsula, Alaska
• Seward, Minneapolis, a neighborhood in Minneapolis, Minnesota

See also

• Seward High School (disambiguation)
• Seward Park (disambiguation)

Places: World

• Seward Mountains, Antarctica
• Sewards End, a village and civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England

Other uses

• Seward Trunk Co., an American luggage company