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Henry Seymour MP, JP (10 November 1776 – 27 November 1849),[1] of Knoyle House, East Knoyle, Wiltshire, of Trent, and of Northbrook, was a British Tory[2] politician.

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Portrait of Henry Seymour in an historical costume, 1815, by François Gérard

He was the only son of Henry Seymour, of Redland Court, Gloucestershire and his second wife, the Comtesse de Panthou.

He was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the borough of Taunton at the 1826 general election,[2] having contested the borough unsuccessfully in 1820,[2] and held the seat until he stood down at the 1830 general election.[1][2] He was also a Justice of the Peace (JP).[citation needed][where?]

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Family

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Henry Danby Seymour (Johannes Notz, 1827)

He married on 12 June 1817 Jane Hopkinson (d. 14 March 1869), daughter of Benjamin Hopkinson, of Bath and of Blagdon Court, Somerset.[3] They had five children:

With Félicité Dailly-Brimont he had an illegitimate daughter Henriette Félicité[4] (1803–1868)[3][5] who married Sir James Tichborne, 10th Baronet, father of Roger Charles Tichborne, the heir who was lost at sea in 1854 and whose impersonator, Arthur Orton, was 'The Tichborne Claimant' in the famous trial. Félicité Dailly-Brimont was reputed to have been the illegitimate daughter of the Duc de Bourbon Conti and his mistress Marie Claude Gaucher-Dailly.[4]

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