| Authorised form of name | Seppings; Sir; Robert (1767 - 1840) |
| Dates | 1767 - 1840 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Fakenham, Norfolk, England |
| Date of birth | 1767 |
| Place of death | Taunton, Somerset |
| Date of death | 25 September 1840 |
| Occupation | Shipbuilder |
| Activity | Education:
DCL (Oxford)
Career:
Apprenticed as a shipwright, Plymouth dockyard; invented 'Sepping's blocks' for which he was granted £1000 by the Admiralty; Master Shipwright (1804); Surveyor to the Navy (1814); resigned at settled at Taunton (1832); memorial in chancel of St Mary's, Taunton
Honours:
Kt 1819
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 10/11/1814 |
| RSActivity | Medals and prizes:
Copley Medal 1818 |
| Relationships | Son of a cattle salesman; adopted by his mother's brother, a naval captain at Plymouth |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1840 No 45 pp 263-264
Notes:
'Saml Carlisle' is Samuel Goodenough, Bishop of Carlisle |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/54931264 |
| Code | NA7101 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1814/15 | Seppings, Sir Robert: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/004113 | Seppings, Sir Robert | nd |
| PT/8/16/2 | Plate, plans of the new design of royal warships by unknown artist | [1814] |
| PT/12/1/2 | Plate, 'A sketch shewing the manner of applying the trusses in the ports and in the hold of His Majesty's Ship Justitia of 74 guns preparatory to a trial for ascertaining their effects' by unknown artist | [1817] |
| PT/8/16/1 | Manuscript, 'On a new principle of constructing His Majesty's ships of war' by Robert Seppings | [1814] |
| PT/12/1 | Paper, 'On the great strength given to ships of war by the application of diagonal braces' by Robert Seppings | [1817] |
| PT/12/1/1 | Manuscript, 'On the great strength given to ships of war by the application of diagonal braces' by Robert Seppings | [1817] |
| PT/14/10 | Letter, introducing accompanying paper on shipbuilding from John Barrow to Sir Joseph Banks | 1 February 1820 |
| PT/8/16 | Paper, 'On a new principle of constructing His Majesty's ships of war' by Robert Seppings | [1814] |
| PT/73/8/10 | Drawings, new method of joining ribs of a merchant ship by [Robert Seppings?] | [1820] |
| PT/73/8/7 | Drawings, ribs and chocks in merchant ships by [Robert Seppings?] | [1820] |
| PT/73/8/8 | Drawings, frame, chocks, and joins in merchant ships by [Robert Seppings?] | [1820] |
| PT/73/8/9 | Drawings, cross section of a merchant ship by [Robert Seppings?] | [1820] |
| PT/73/8/11 | Drawing, old and new methods of stern framing in merchant ships by [Robert Seppings?] | [1820] |
| AP/8A/16 | Unpublished paper, 'A further explanation of the new principle of constructing His Majesty's ships of war' by Robert Seppings | [1815] |
| AP/8A/16/3 | Unpublished diagram, sections and plans of a ship by [Robert Seppings] | [1815] |
| AP/9/23 | Unpublished paper, 'Observations on the new system of diagonal framing, introduced into HM [His Majesty's] Navy by R [Robert] Seppings Esq' by William Morgan | [1819] |
| AP/8A/16/1 | Unpublished manuscript, 'A further explanation of the new principle of constructing His Majesty's ships of war' by Robert Seppings | [1815] |
| AP/8A/16/2 | Unpublished diagram, 'A longitudinal section of the Maida (late Jupiter) of 74 guns, showing a part of the inner planking placed obliquely' by [Robert Seppings] | [1815] |
| AP/9/23/1 | Unpublished manuscript, 'Observations on the new system of diagonal framing, introduced into HM [His Majesty's] Navy by R [Robert] Seppings Esq' by William Morgan | [1819] |
| AP/9/23/2 | Unpublished diagrams, diagonal framing by [William Morgan?] | [1819] |
| PT/14/11 | Paper, 'On a new principle of constructing ships in the Mercantile Navy' by Sir Robert Seppings | [1820] |
| HS/17/190 | Letter, from Sir Robert Seppings to Sir John Herschel, dated at Navy Office | 18 May 1822 |