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DEBRETT S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. 437 SOMERS, Earl, His lordship's predecessor was his father, John, 2nd Earl Somers. He was b. March 19, 1788, and succeeded his father, Jan. 5, 1841 ; was Lord Lieut, of Herefordshire, and Col. of the Militia of that county; 7?*. 1815, Lady Caroline Yorke-who d. 1 873 daughter of the 3rd Earl of Hardwicke; and d. Oct. 5, 1852, having: had issue one son and four daughters. Faith for duty. SOMERSET, DUKE OF. (Si. MATIR.) EDWARD ADOLPHUS ST. MAUR, K.G. P.C. 12th Duke, and a Baronet. Lord Lieut, and Gustos Rotulorum of Devonshire. Born Dec. 20th, 1804 ; succeeded his father in 1855; educated at Christ Church, Oxford; was M.P. for Totnes, 1834 55, a Lord of the Treasury, 18359, Secretary to the Board of Control, 1839 41, Chief Com- missioner of Works, 1851 2, and First Lord of the Admiralty, 1859 66 : married (1830) Jane (Jeorgiana, youngest daughter of the late Thomas Sheridan, Esq. and has issue, living, Daughters, Jane Hermione, b. 1832, m. 1852, Sir F. U. Graham, 3rd Bart. Ulrica Frederica Jane, b. 1833, m. 1858, (Thynne). Helen Gwendolin, b. 1846, m. 1865, Sir John Ramsden, 5th Bart. Brothers living, Archibald Henry Algernon, heir presumptive, 4.1810; was educated at Eton . served sometime in the Royal Horse Guards; is a Dep. Lieut, and a Magistrate for Leicestershire, and was High Sheriff of that county, 1844. Seat, Burton Hall, near Loughborough. Town Res>dence, -lb, Half Moon Street, W. Algernon Percy Banks, b. 1813, TO. 1845. Sisters lining, Charlotte Jane, b. 1803, m. 1839, (.Glount) .Jane Anne Wilhelmina, b. 1806. Henrietta Jane, 1809. Patron of three livings, Berry Pomeroy, V. Teigngrace, R. Devonshire. Witham Friary, I. Somersetshire. Creation, Duke of Somerset and Baron Seymour of Hache, 1547, in the peerage of England, and Earl St. Maur of Berry Pomeroy, in the peerage of the United Kingdom, 1863. arms, Quarterly : 1st and 4th, or, on a pile, gules, between six fleurs-de-lis, azure, three lions of England, (being a coat ot augmentation granted by King Henry VJII. on his marriage with lady Jane Seymour) ; 2nd and 3rd, gules, two wings conjoined in lure, or, Seymour. Crest, Out of a ducal coronet, or, a demi-phoenix, in flames, proper. 55-upportms, Dexter, a unicorn, ardent, armed, unguled, and cnned, or, gorged with a ducal coronet, per pale, azure and gold, and chained of the last ; sinister, a bull, azure, armed, unguled, ducally gorged, and chained, or. Setitft, Maiden Bradley- house, Bath ; Bulttrode-park, Gerrard's Cross, Buckingham- shire; SLovet'-lodge, Devonshire. To ten Residence, 30, Grosvenor-gardens, S.W. Clubs, Athenaeum, Travellers'. SOMERSET, Duke of, His Grace's predecessor was his father, Edward Adolphi's K.C. l ith Duke of Somerset. He was b. Feb. 24, 1/76, and succeeded his father, Dec. 15, 1/93; TO. 1st, June 24, I8u0, Lady Charlotte Hamilton, daughter of the 9th Duke of H'.upi'ton and Brandon, (she d. 1827), and by her had issue four sons and four daughters ; 2ndly, July 23, I83f>, Margaret, daughter of the late S*r Michael Shaw Stewart, 5th Bart, and d. Aug. 15, 1855, wiihout issue from his last marriage. SOMERSET, MARGARET, Duchess of, daughter of Sir Michael Shaw Stewart: m. 1836, as his 2nd wile, the llth Duke of Somerset, K.G., who d. 1855. Residence, Somerset-house, Park-lane, W.