John Seymour, 19th Duke of Somerset

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His Grace
The Duke of Somerset
Bt DL FRICS
Portrait by Allan Warren
Personal details
Born
John Michael Edward Seymour

(1952-12-30) 30 December 1952 (age 71)
Bath, Somerset, UK
Spouse(s)Judith-Rose née Hull, Duchess of Somerset
ChildrenSebastian, Lord Seymour
Lady Sophia Seymour
Lady Henrietta Seymour
Lord Charles Seymour
Parent(s)Percy Seymour, 18th Duke of Somerset
Jane née Thomas, Dowager Duchess of Somerset
Residence(s)Maiden Bradley House, Wiltshire
ProfessionFRICS
Known forLandowning;
HoL member
AwardsDL
Other titlesBaron Seymour
Websitewww.duchyofsomerset.co.uk

John Michael Edward Seymour, 19th Duke of Somerset, DL FRICS (born 30 December 1952), styled Lord Seymour between 1954 and 1984, is a British aristocratic landowner in Wiltshire and Devon, and a member of the House of Lords.

Life

Educated at Hawtreys and Eton College, he qualified as a chartered surveyor[1] before succeeding to the dukedom in 1984 on the death of his father.[2] Having lost his seat in the House of Lords under the House of Lords Act 1999, he was elected at the December 2014 HoL By-election,[3] to sit as a Crossbencher in the Upper House.[4]

The Duke's principal seat is Bradley House, Maiden Bradley, Wiltshire,[5] and he also owns Berry Pomeroy Castle in Devon.

He was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Wiltshire in 1993[6] and for Devon in 2003.[7]

Family

The present Duke is the son of Percy Seymour, 18th Duke of Somerset, and Jane, Dowager Duchess of Somerset (née Thomas, died 2005). His paternal grandmother, Edith Mary Parker, was a daughter of William Parker and Lucinda Steeves, daughter of William Steeves, one of the Fathers of Canadian Confederation.

He married at All Saints' Church, Maiden Bradley, on 20 May 1978, Judith-Rose Hull, daughter of John Folliott Hull; the Duke and Duchess have four children:

  • Sebastian Edward, Lord Seymour (b. Queen Charlotte's Hospital, London, 3 February 1982), m. 27 Aug 2006 Arlette Marie Léontine, daughter of Daniel Lafayeedney, of La Grasse, France[8]
  • Lady Sophia Rose Seymour (b. 1987)
  • Lady Henrietta Charlotte Seymour (b. 1989)
  • Lord Charles Thomas George Seymour (b. 1992).[9]

Controversy

In 2015 the Duke was involved in a dispute over a plan to build housing on ancestral land he owns at Totnes, Devon.[10]

Ancestry

Family of John Seymour, 19th Duke of Somerset
Reverend Francis Seymour
Edward Seymour, 16th Duke of Somerset
Jane Dallas
Evelyn Seymour, 17th Duke of Somerset
George Wall
Rowena Wall
Mary Ward
Percy Seymour, 18th Duke of Somerset
William Parker
Edith Parker
William Steeves
Lucinda Steeves
Mary Steeves
John Seymour, 19th Duke of Somerset
William Thomas
John Thomas
Jane Thomas
Thomas Scott-Brown
Jessie Scott-Brown

Arms

Coat of arms of John Seymour, 19th Duke of Somerset
Coronet
That of a Duke
Crest
Out of a Coronet Or a Phoenix of the Last issuing from Flames Proper
Helm
That of a Peer
Escutcheon
Quarterly: 1st and 4th, Or on a Pile Gules between six Fleurs-de-Lis Azure three Lions of England (being the Augmentation of Honour granted by King Henry VIII on his marriage with Jane Seymour); 2nd and 3rd, Gules two Wings joined in lure the tips downwards Or (Seymour)
Supporters
Dexter: an Unicorn Argent armed maned and tufted Or gorged with a Coronet per pale Azure and Or to which is affixed a Chain of the Last; Sinister: a Bull Azure gorged with a Coronet chained hoofed and armed Or
Motto
FOY POUR DEVOIR
Medieval French for: FAITH FOR DUTY
Insignia of an English baronet

See also

References

  1. ^ www.rics.org
  2. ^ ‘SOMERSET, 19th Duke of’, in Who's Who 2012 (A. & C. Black, 2012); online edition (subscription required) by Oxford University Press, December 2011, accessed 8 December 2011
  3. ^ "Crossbench Hereditary Peers' By-Election, December 2014" (PDF). Retrieved 10 December 2014.
  4. ^ www.parliament.uk
  5. ^ www.bradleyhouse.org
  6. ^ www.wiltshire.gov.uk
  7. ^ www.lordlieutenantofdevon.org.uk
  8. ^ www.statecraft.org.uk
  9. ^ Mosley, Charles (ed.) (2003). Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 107th edn. London: Burke's Peerage & Gentry Ltd. p. 3678 (SOMERSET, D). ISBN 0-9711966-2-1. {{cite book}}: |first= has generic name (help)
  10. ^ "Totnes' Great Court Farm plans get the go-ahead despite demo". Torquay Herald Express. 14 January 2015. Retrieved 4 September 2015.

Notes

External links

Peerage of England
Preceded by Duke of Somerset
1984 – present 		Incumbent
Orders of precedence in the United Kingdom
Preceded by Gentlemen
The Duke of Somerset 		Succeeded by

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