Admitted 9 February, 1682-3.
In the Register he is entered as "Charles Percy" (by mistake for Seymour) "Duke of Somerset, Marquis and Earl of Hertford, Viscount Beauchamp, Baron of Trobridge." He was commonly known as the " proud duke." He was born 12 Aug. 1662. He married Elizabeth, the heiress of the Percies. He actively supported the Prince of Orange, and was Guardian of the Realm for George I. in 1714. He died 2 Dec. 1748.
SEYMOUR, FRANCIS, first BARON SEYMOUR of TROWBRIDGE.
About 1590—1664. Admitted 31 January, 1625-6.
He is entered on the Register as "Francis Semour, Knight, brother of William, Earl of Hertford " {q.v.). He was the third son of Edward Seymour, Lord Beauchamp. He was knighted by James I. in 1613. He represented Wiltshire in Parliament for many years from 1620, and in 1625 was made Sheriff of the county. On the outbreak of the Civil War he joined the king and was declared a delinquent by Parliament, but took no part in politics during the Commonwealth and Protectorate. At the Restoration he was restored to the office of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, which he had previously held. He died 12 July, 1664.
SEYMOUR, WILLIAM, first MARQUESS HERTFORD. 1588—1660.
Admitted 5 March, 1617-8.
On the Register he is entered simply as " William Seymor, Knight of the Bath." He was the second son of Edward Seymour, Lord Beauchamp, and grandson of the Lord Protector, Somerset. He was educated at Oxford, where he showed great aptitude for study, and of which University he was Chan- cellor in 1643, and again in 1660. On the death of his grandfather in 1621 he was summoned to the House of Lords. During the CivW. War he was an active Royalist, and was appointed to a command in the West, where he did good service in the roval cause. At the Restoration he received the Order of the Garter. He died 24 Oct. 1660.
SEYMOUR, WILLIAM DIGBY. County Court Judge. 1822—1895.
Admitted 14 November, 1845.
Third son of Rev. Charles Seymour of Kilronan Glebe, Ardagh, Ireland. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated. He was called to the Bar 12 June, 1846, having kept some of his terms at the Inner Temple, where he was admitted 2 May, 1843. He was Recorder of Newcastle in 1854. In 1859 he was censured by the Benchers of his Inn in connexion with some commercial transactions affecting his character as a barrister, and was excluded from the Bar mess of his circuit In 1861 he was appointed Queen's Counsel and became Judge of County Courts in 1889. He was the author of a work on Merchant Shipping (1854), and of some other treatises on econo- mical subjects, also of a translation of the Hebrew Psalter, 1882. He died 16 March, 1895. For an account of the unfortunate circumstances above alluded to and which led to an action for libel, see 3 Foster d: Finlascm, 372.
