Algernon St Maur, 14th Duke of Somerset

Algernon Percy Banks St. Maur, 14th Duke of Somerset (né Seymour; 22 December 1813 – 2 October 1894) was an English aristocrat.^[1]

"An old fashioned Duke". Caricature by "Spy" published in Vanity Fair in 1893.

St Maur was born at Park Lane, Mayfair, in 1813, the third son of Edward St Maur, 11th Duke of Somerset and Lady Charlotte Hamilton, daughter of the 9th Duke of Hamilton. He was educated at Eton, and served as a captain in the Royal Horse Guards.^[1]

His father died in 1855. St Maur succeeded his elder brothers Edward (1804–1885), and Archibald (1810–1891), both of whom died without living male heirs, in the dukedom.^[2]

On 17 May 1845, he married Horatia Isabella Harriet Morier, daughter of diplomat John Philip Morier.^[3][4] They had four sons:

• Algernon St Maur, 15th Duke of Somerset (22 July 1846 – 29 October 1923)
• Major Lord Percy St. Maur (11 November 1847 – 16 July 1907), m. the Hon. Violet White, daughter of Luke White, 2nd Baron Annaly and had issue.^[5]
• Lord Ernest St. Maur (11 November 1847 – 21 May 1922)
• Lord Edward St. Maur (7 February 1849 – 15 September 1920)

He died suddenly while visiting the Wells, Somerset home of Charles Clement Tudway (the son of MP Robert Tudway). He experienced indigestion followed by an apparent heart attack.^[1]

Ancestry

Ancestors of Algernon St Maur, 14th Duke of Somerset

Sir Edward Seymour, 5th Baronet Edward Seymour, 8th Duke of Somerset Laetitia Popham Webb Seymour, 10th Duke of Somerset Daniel Webb Mary Webb Elizabeth Somner Edward Adolphus St Maur, 11th Duke of Somerset Andrew Bonnell John Bonnell Anna Maria/Mary Anne Bonnell Algernon St Maur, 14th Duke of Somerset James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Hamilton Elizabeth Gerard Archibald Hamilton, 9th Duke of Hamilton Anne Spencer Lady Charlotte Douglas-Hamilton James Stewart, 5th Earl of Galloway Alexander Stewart, 6th Earl of Galloway Catherine Montgomerie Harriet Stewart John Cochrane, 4th Earl of Dundonald Lady Catherine Cochrane

References

1. "Obituary: The Duke of Somerset". The Times. The Times Digital Archive. 3 October 1894. p. 10.
2. Joseph Banks (1 January 2000). The Letters of Sir Joseph Banks: A Selection, 1768-1820. World Scientific. p. 389. ISBN 978-1-86094-204-4.
3. Charles Roger Dod (1855). Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage. S. Low, Marston & Company. p. 663.
4. Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, Including All the Titled Classes. 1914. p. 1035.
5. Richard Mead (1 January 2013). The Last Great Cavalryman: The Life of General Sir Richard McCreery, Commander Eighth Army. Casemate Publishers. p. 39. ISBN 978-1-84884-465-0.

Peerage of England
Preceded by Archibald Seymour	Duke of Somerset 1891–1894	Succeeded by Algernon St Maur