Horace Seymour

For Sir Horace Seymour (1885–1978), see Horace James Seymour.

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Horace Beauchamp Seymour (1791–1851)

Colonel Sir Horace Beauchamp Seymour KCH (22 November 1791 – 23 November 1851) was a Peelite Member of Parliament for Lisburn 1819–26, Orford (1820), Bodmin (1826–32), Midhurst (1841–45), Antrim (1845–47), and Lisburn 1847–51.

Horace Seymour was the son of Admiral Lord Hugh Seymour (son of Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford) and Lady Anne Horatia Waldegrave. He married, firstly, Elizabeth Malet Palk, daughter of Sir Lawrence Palk, 2nd Baronet and granddaughter of Robert Palk, on 15 May 1818. He married, secondly, Frances Selina Isabella Poyntz, daughter of William Stephen Poyntz and Hon. Elizabeth Mary Browne, in July 1835.

By his first wife he had three children;

• Lt.-Col. Charles Francis Seymour (13 September 1819 – 5 November 1854), killed at the Battle of Inkerman
• Frederick Beauchamp Paget Seymour, 1st Baron Alcester (12 April 1821 – 30 March 1895)
• Adelaide Horatia Elizabeth Seymour (27 January 1825 – 29 October 1877), who married Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer, and was an ancestor of Diana, Princess of Wales.

Ancestry

Family of Horace Seymour

16. Sir Edward Seymour, 4th Baronet, of Berry Pomeroy               8. Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Baron Conway                       17. Letitia Popham               4. Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford                             18. Sir John Shorter (father of 29)               9. Charlotte Shorter                       19. Elizabeth Philipps (mother of 29)               2. Lord Hugh Seymour                                   20. Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton               10. Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton                       21. Isabella Bennet, 2nd Countess of Arlington               5. Lady Isabella Fitzroy                             22. Charles Somerset, Marquess of Worcester               11. Lady Henrietta Somerset                       23. Rebecca Child               1. Horace Seymour                                         24. Henry Waldegrave, 1st Baron Waldegrave               12. James Waldegrave, 1st Earl Waldegrave                       25. Henrietta FitzJames               6. James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave                             26. Sir John Webb, 3rd Baronet, of Odstock               13. Mary Webb                       27. The Hon. Barbara Belasyse               3. Lady Anne Horatia Waldegrave                                   28. Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, Prime Minister of Great Britain               14. The Hon. Sir Edward Walpole                       29. Catherine Shorter               7. Maria Walpole                             30. Hammond Clement               15. Dorothy Clement                       31. Priscilla

References

• http://www.angelfire.com/realm/gotha/gotha/somerset.html

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Horace Seymour

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by John Leslie Foster	Member of Parliament for Lisburn 1819–1826	Succeeded by Henry Meynell
Preceded by Edmund Alexander Macnaghten John Douglas	Member of Parliament for Orford 1820 With: John Douglas	Succeeded by John Douglas Edmund Alexander Macnaghten
Preceded by Davies Gilbert John Wilson Croker	Member of Parliament for Bodmin 1826–1832 With: Davies Gilbert	Succeeded by William Peter Samuel Thomas Spry
Preceded by Hon. Frederick Spencer	Member of Parliament for Midhurst 1841–1845	Succeeded by Spencer Horatio Walpole
Preceded by John Irving Nathaniel Alexander	Member of Parliament for Antrim 1845–1847 With: Nathaniel Alexander	Succeeded by Nathaniel Alexander Sir Edmund Workman-Macnaghten, Bt
Preceded by Henry Meynell	Member of Parliament for Lisburn 1847–1851	Succeeded by Sir James Emerson Tennent