Early Life
Seton-Watson was born in London to Scottish parents. His father, William Livingstone Watson, had been a tea-merchant in Calcutta, and his mother, Elizabeth Lindsay Seton, was the daughter of George Seton, genealogist and historian, the son of George Seton of the East India Company. His inherited wealth, of Indian origin, later assisted his activities on behalf of Europe's subject peoples.
He was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, where he read modern history under the historian and politician H. A. L. Fisher. He graduated with a first-class degree in 1901.
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