SEYMOUR, Hugh Henry John (1790-1821).

Constituency	Dates
Co. Antrim	1820 – 2 Dec. 1821

Family and Education

b. 25 Sept. 1790, 2nd s. of Hon. Hugh Seymour Conway, and bro. of Horace Beauchamp Seymour. educ. Harrow 1803. m. 18 May 1818, Lady Charlotte Georgiana Cholmondeley, da. of George James, 1st Mq. of Cholmondeley, 1s.

Offices Held

Ensign, 3 Ft. Gds. 1805, lt. and capt. 1811, capt. and lt.-col. 1815; brevet lt.-col. 1815; equerry in ordinary 1818 – 20; half-pay 1820.

biography text

Seymour was returned for Antrim where his uncle, the 2nd Marquess of Hertford, possessed a powerful electoral interest and silently supported government. Considered ‘one of the finest looking men in his Majesty’s service’, he died 2 Dec. 1821, reported never to have recovered from the Walcheren fever.1Add. 40298, f. 2; Gent. Mag. (1821), ii. 573.

Author

P.J.J.

Volume

Commons 1790-1820

Notes

1. Add. 40298, f. 2; Gent. Mag. (1821), ii. 573.