Frederic Seebohm, Baron Seebohm

Frederic Seebohm, Baron Seebohm, TD (18 January 1909 – 15 December 1990), was a British banker, soldier and social work innovator. Lord Seebohm was the son of Hugh Exton Seebohm and Lesley Gribble, and grandson of the historian Frederic Seebohm, he was born in Hitchin in Hertfordshire. He was educated at Leighton Park School and Trinity College, Cambridge and then joined the Barclays Bank which had taken over the Hitchin Bank founded by his famil... More

Frederic Seebohm, Baron Seebohm, TD (18 January 1909 – 15 December 1990), was a British banker, soldier and social work innovator. Lord Seebohm was the son of Hugh Exton Seebohm and Lesley Gribble, and grandson of the historian Frederic Seebohm, he was born in Hitchin in Hertfordshire. He was educated at Leighton Park School and Trinity College, Cambridge and then joined the Barclays Bank which had taken over the Hitchin Bank founded by his family. Seebohm served in the Royal Artillery, reaching the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He was mentioned in dispatches and was decorated with the Territorial Decoration. Having been local director of the bank's branch office in Luton and Birmingham, Seebohm became director of the main board after the war. In 1951, he was made a member of the bank's overseas board and in 1965 chairman of the renamed Barclays Bank International. He retired seven years later. On 28 April 1972, he was created a life peer as Baron Seebohm, of Hertford in the County of...

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