Henry Seymour
MP, JP (10 November 1776 – 27 November 1849),
of Knoyle House,
East Knoyle, Wiltshire, of
Trent, and of
Northbrook, was a British
Tory
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politician.
He was the only son of
Henry Seymour, of
Redland Court,
Gloucestershire
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and his second wife, the Comtesse de Panthou.
He was elected as a
Member of Parliament (MP) for the
borough of Taunton at the
1826 general election,
having contested the borough unsuccessfully in
1820
Events
January–March
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,
and held the seat until he stood down at the
1830 general election.
He was also a
Justice of the Peace (JP).
Family
He married on 12 June 1817 Jane Hopkinson (d. 14 March 1869), daughter of Benjamin Hopkinson, of
Bath
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** Bathtub, a large open container for water, in which a person may wash their body
** Public bathing, a public place where people bathe
* Thermae, ancient Roman public bathing facilities
Plac ...
and of
Blagdon Court, Somerset.
They had five children:
*
Henry Danby Seymour, of Trent (1820–1877)
*
Alfred Seymour, of Knoyle House, Wiltshire, and of Trent (1824–1888)
*Jane Seymour (d. 18 September 1892), m. 21 August 1847 Philip Pleydell-Bouverie, of
Brymore (21 April 1821 – 10 March 1890), son of Hon.
Philip Pleydell-Bouverie, and had issue
*Sarah Ellen Seymour (d. 14 August 1867), m. 14 May 1857
William Ayshford Sanford, of
Nynehead Court, Somerset (2 December 1818 – 28 October 1902)
*Louisa Caroline Harcourt Seymour (d. 31 October 1889), m. 2 September 1862
Maj.-Gen. Sir Creswicke Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet (11 April 1810 – 5 March 1895), by whom she had two sons
With Félicité Dailly-Brimont he had an illegitimate daughter Henriette Félicité
(1803–1868)
who married
Sir James Tichborne,
10th Baronet, father of
Roger Charles Tichborne, the heir who was lost at sea in 1854 and whose impersonator,
Arthur Orton, was 'The Tichborne Claimant' in the
famous trial. Félicité Dailly-Brimont was reputed to have been the illegitimate daughter of the Duc de Bourbon Conti and his mistress Marie Claude Gaucher-Dailly.
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1776 births
1849 deaths
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies
UK MPs 1826–1830
English people of French descent
Henry Seymour, of Knoyle House, Wiltshire, of Trent, and of Northbrook
Tory MPs (pre-1834)