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SOMERSET. 183 Devon. Ho hi. 10 .Tune 18.30 (spec, lie.) at the house of Sir James Graham in Grosvenor square, Jane Georgiana, 3d and y8t. da. of Thomas Sheridan,; 1 ) by Caroline Henrietta, da. of Col. James Callendeh, subsequently Sir James Campbell, Bart., of Ardinglaaa. She, who was b. 5 Nov. 1809 (tho' not bap. till 1 Aug. 1815, at Petersham, co. Surrey), (/. 14 Dec. 1 S S 4 , aged 75.( b ) He d. 8 p.m.s., 28 Nov. 1885, at his residence, Stover Lodge, near Torquay. Devon, in his 81st year, and was bur. at Gernrds Cross afsd.(<0 Will dat. 19 Jan. ISSo, pr. 1886. [Edward Adoi.phus Ferdinand Seymour, styled Lord Seymour till 1863 and EaUL Saint Maur from 1803 to ISoO, 1st and oDly surv. s. and h. ap.. 6. 17 July 1835 ; an officer in the 5th Dragoons, 1858-60. He was sum. v.p. to the House of Lords, 9 July 1863, in his father's Barony as LOUD SEYMOUR. He d. unm. and v.p. 30 Sep. 1S69, aged 34, at 30 Dover street.] XVIII. 18Si3. 18. Archibald Henry Algernon (St. Maur, formerly Seymour), Duke of Somerset, &c, next br. and h. male ; h. 30 Dee. 1810 : stt/led Lord Arluiuald Seymour, subsequently St. Mauh till 18S5 ; sd. at Eton ; High Sheriff for Leicestershire, 1834 ; sue. to the peerage, 23 Nor. 1SS5. He d. unm. at 28. Berkeley square, 10 Jan. 1891, in his 81st year, and was bur. at Maiden Bradley afsd. Will pr. at £310, 242 net. XIX. 1891. 1 J,. Algernon Percy Banks (St. Maur, formerly Seymour), Duke i» Somerset, &c, br. and h., being 3 and yet. s. o£ the 11th Duke, by his first wife ; 6. 22 Dec. 1813 ; stifled Lord Algernon Seymour, tubtequentlg St. Mauh, till 1891 ; ed. at Eton ; was sometime Cape, in the Royal Horse Guards ; sue. to the peerage, 18 Jan. 1891. He m. 17 May 1845, at St. Geo., Han. sq., Horatia Isabella Harriet, 3d da. of John Philip MoiuElt, sometime Minister at Dresden, by Horatia Maria Frances, da. of Admiral Lord Hugh Seymour, 5th s. of Francis, 1st Marquess of Hertford. He if. suddenly from heart disease, 2 Oct. 1894, in his 81st year, at the Cedars, in Wells, co. Somerset, and was bur. at Maiden Bradley afsd.(d) His widow living 1895. XX. 1S94. 15. Algernon (St. Maur), Duke of Somerset and Baron Seymour [1547], also a Baronet [161 1 J, 1st s. and h., 6. 22 July 1846, sometime Lieut. 60th Rifles ; styled Lord Seymour from 1S91 till he ( a ) He was s. of the Kt. Hon. Richard Briusley Sheridan, the well-known Dramatist, by his first wife, the beautiful da. of Thomas Linley. His eldest son acquired, by marriage, the estate of Framptou Court, co. Dorset. ( b ) She, as Lady Seymour, was " the Queen of Beauty " at the celebrated tourna- ment at Eglinton Castle in 1839, beiiiK one of three sisters well-known for their beauty and accomplishments. Of them the Marquess of Dufferin (son of the eldest one) writes in his memoir of his mother, " The beauty of the sisters was of a different type, but they were all equally tall and stately. The Duchess of Somerset had large deep blue or violet eyes, black hair, black eyebrows and eyelashes, perfect features, and a complexion of lilies and roses — a kind of colouring seldom seen out of Ireland. Mrs. Norton [Caroline, wife of the Hon. Geo. C. Norton], on the contrary, was a brunette, with dark burning eyes like her grandfather's, a pure Greek profile, and a clear olive complexion . . . My mother [Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye], though her features were less regular than those of her sisters, was equally lovely and attractive." See also vol. iii, p. 190, note " c," sub " Dufferin," for some notice of these Ladies. ( c ) " Altho' a Liberal in politics, of recent years the Duke was not a warm admirer of Mr. Gladstone whom he styled " an enthusiastic politician trying to set every thing to rights," and "a very good Chancellor of the Exchequer, but a very bad Prime Minister." His Grace was " a man of excellent classical attainments and he was also a good mathematician." [Am. Reg. 1885.] ( d ) He (with the late Duke of Beaufort) was one of the beat amateur " whips " of his time, frequently driving "The Ago" to Oxford, &c. He was author of "The m Coaching Days," pub. iu the Badminton Series.