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428 DEBRETT'S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. Seymour, Baron, title borne by the Duke of Somerset. Seymour-Conway, family name of the Marquess of Hertford. SHAFTESBURY, EARL OF. (ASHLEY-COOPER.) ANTHONY ASHLEY-COOPER, K.G. D.C.L- 7th Earl, and a Baronet, Lord Lieut, of Dorsetshire. Born April 28th, 1801; succeeded his father in 1851 ; was educated at Harrow, and at Christ Church, Oxford, (B.A. 1st class in Classics, 1822, M.A. 1832, D.C.L. 1841); was a Commissioner of the Board of Control, 182830, a Lord of the Admiralty, 1834 5, and an Ec- clesiastical Commissioner, 1841 7 ; is Chairman of the Lunacy Commission; sat as M.P. for Woodstock, 182630, for Dorchester, 183146, for county of Dorset, and for Bath, 184751: married (1830) Lady Emily Cowper, who died 1872, eldest daughter of the 5th Earl Cowper, and has issue, living, Sons, Anthony, Lord Ashley, b. 1831 ; was educated at Rugby; entered the Royal Navy, 1848, served in the Black Sea and the Baltic during the Crimean War; was Capt. An- trim Rifle Militia 185862, and Lieut. -Col. Dorsetshire Militia 186272 ; appointed Lieut. Commanding Royal Nav:>l Artillery Volunteers 1875 ; was M.P. for Hull, 18579, and for Cricklade, 185965 ; is a Dep. Lieut, and a Magistrate of Dorsetshire : m. 1857, Lady Harriet Augusta Anne Seymourina Chichester, daughter of the 3rd Marquess of Donegall, K.P., G.C.H., and has with other issue, Anthony, b. 1869. Residence, 29, Chester Square, S.W. Anthony Evelyn Melbourne, M.P., b. 1836, m. 1866. Anthony Lionel George, 6. 1838, m. 1868. Anthony Cecil, b. 1849. Daughters, Victoria Elizabeth, b. 1837, m. 1873, the 2nd Baron Templemore. Edith Florence, b. 1847. Brother living, Anthony William, b. 1803, m. 1831. Sister living, Charlotte Barbara, b. 1799, m. 1824, (Lyster). Patron of eight livings, Holy Trinity, R. and St. James's, R. Shaftesbury, St. Giles's, R. Wimborne, Cann, R. Horton, R. Hinton Martell, R. Dorsetshire. Purton, V. Wiltshire. And with Mrs. Monroe, one turn in three of Edmondsham, R. Dorset. Creations, Baron Ashley of Wimborne St. Giles, 1661, Baron Cooper of Powlett, Somerset, and Earl of Shaftesbury, 1672, all in the peerage of Great Britain. <arnt3, Quarterly : 1st and 4th, argent, three bulls passant, sable, armed and unguled, or, Ashley ; 2nd and 3rd, gules, a bend engrailed, between six lions rampant, or, Cooper. Crest, On a chapeau, gules, turned up ermine, a bull statant, sable, armed, unguled, and ducally gorged, or. Supporters, Dexter, a bull, sable, armed, unguled, ducally gorged, and chain reflexed over the back, or ; sinister, a talbot, azure, ducally gorged, or. Seat, St. Giles's, Cranbourne, Dorsetshire. Town Residence, 24, Grosvenor- square, W. Club, Athenaeum. SHAFTESBURY, Earl of, His lordship's predecessor was his father, Cropley, 6th Earl of Shaftesbury. He was b. Dec. 21, 1/68, and succeeded his brother, May 14, 1811; was Chairman of Committees in the House of Lords: m. Dec. 10, 1/96, Lady Anne Spencer, daughter of the 4th Duke of Marlborough ; and d. June 2, 1851, having had issue six sons and four daughters. Her ladyship d. in 1865.