Alfred Seymour
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Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Template:Wikidata image Alfred Seymour MP, JP (11 November 1824 – 15 March 1888), of Knoyle House, East Knoyle, Wiltshire, and of Trent, Dorset, was a British Liberal Party politician.
Background
He was a son of Henry Seymour of Knoyle House, Wiltshire, of Trent and of Northbrook and wife Jane Hopkinson, and brother of Henry Danby Seymour of Trent.
Career
He was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Totnes at a by-election in January 1863, and held the seat until the borough was disenfranchised in 1868.[1] He returned to the House of Commons the following year, when he was elected at a by-election for Salisbury, campaigning in support of Mr. Gladstone's policies.[2] He held that seat until his defeat at the 1874 general election.[3]
Seymour was also a Justice of the Peace. He succeeded in Knoyle House, Wiltshire, in 1863.
Family
He married on 18 August 1866 Isabella Leighton (d. 7 April 1911), daughter of Sir Baldwyn Leighton, 8th Baronet, and wife, and widow of Beriah Botfield of Hopton Court, Shropshire, Member of Parliament, and had one daughter:
- Jane Margaret Seymour (14 March 1873 – 5 August 1943), unmarried and without issue
References
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- ↑ Craig, op. cit., page 267
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