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Nationality
  
British

Parents
  
Henry Seymour

Died
  
March 15, 1888

Role
  
British Politician

Name
  
Alfred Seymour


Occupation
  
British Liberal Party politician

Years active
  
Member of Parliament January 1863 until 1868;House of Commons 1864-1874

Known for
  
Member of Parliament (MP) for Totnes

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.

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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. He returned to the House of Commons the following year, when he was elected at a by-election for Salisbury, and held that seat until his defeat at the 1874 general election.

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

    Alfred Seymour Wikipedia


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