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Horace Seymour

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

Horace Beauchamp Seymour (1791–1851)

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;

Ancestry

References

  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
  2. ^ a b "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.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Lisburn
1819–1826 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Orford
1820
With: John Douglas 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Bodmin
1826–1832
With: Davies Gilbert 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Midhurst
1841–1845 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Antrim
1845–1847
With: Nathaniel Alexander 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Lisburn
1847–1851 		Succeeded by


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