Horace Seymour

Colonel Sir Horace Beauchamp Seymour KCH (22 November 1791 – 23 November 1851) was an English army officer and Tory politician.

Life

Horace Seymour was the son of Admiral Lord Hugh Seymour (son of Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford) and Lady Anne Horatia Waldegrave.

At the Battle of Waterloo, Seymour was aide-de-camp to the cavalry commander Lord Uxbridge and was reported to have killed more men at the battle than any other single individual. He carried the wounded Uxbridge from the battlefield, after he was hit by grapeshot from a cannon. Seymour later recalled that when hit Uxbridge cried out "I have got it at last," to which the Duke of Wellington replied "No? Have you, by God?"^[1]

Going into politics as a Peelite, Seymour was Member of Parliament for Lisburn 1819–1826, Orford (1820), Bodmin (1826–1832), Midhurst (1841–45), Antrim (1845–1847), and Lisburn again, 1847–1851.^[2]

Family

Seymour 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.^[2] Frances was the widow of the 18th Baron Clinton and was a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Adelaide.^[3]

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

Ancestry

Ancestors of Horace Seymour

8. Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Baron Conway

4. Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford

9. Charlotte Shorter

2. Lord Hugh Seymour

10. Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton

5. Lady Isabella Fitzroy

11. Lady Henrietta Somerset

1. Horace Seymour

12. James Waldegrave, 1st Earl Waldegrave

6. James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave

13. Mary Webb

3. Lady Anne Horatia Waldegrave

14. The Hon. Sir Edward Walpole

7. Maria Walpole

15. Dorothy Clement

References

^ A. McK. Annand, "COLONEL SIR HORACE SEYMOUR, K.C.H., M.P. (1791-1851)" in Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, Vol. 47, No. 190 (Summer 1969), pp. 86-88
^ ^a ^b "Seymour, Horace Beauchamp (1791-1851), of 23 Bruton Street, Mdx. History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org.
^ "The appointment letters of John Durancé George, Dental Surgeon". Simon Kidner. Retrieved 11 January 2020.

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

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[1] A. McK. Annand, "COLONEL SIR HORACE SEYMOUR, K.C.H., M.P. (1791-1851)" in Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, Vol. 47, No. 190 (Summer 1969), pp. 86-88

[HoP-2] "Seymour, Horace Beauchamp (1791-1851), of 23 Bruton Street, Mdx. History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org.

[3] "The appointment letters of John Durancé George, Dental Surgeon". Simon Kidner. Retrieved 11 January 2020.

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