Horace Seymour

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 Sir 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. Frances was the widow of the 18th Baron Clinton and was a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Adelaide.^[1]

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

Ancestors of Horace Seymour

17. Letitia Popham

18. Sir John Shorter (father of 29)

9. Charlotte Shorter

19. Elizabeth Philipps (mother of 29)

5. Lady Isabella Fitzroy

11. Lady Henrietta Somerset

23. Rebecca Child

1. Horace Seymour

26. Sir John Webb, 3rd Baronet, of Odstock

13. Mary Webb

27. The Hon. Barbara Belasyse

3. Lady Anne Horatia Waldegrave

30. Hammond Clement

15. Dorothy Clement

31. Priscilla

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

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