John Seymour, 19th Duke of Somerset

Portrait of John Seymour, 19th Duke of Somerset by Allan Warren

John Michael Edward Seymour, 19th Duke of Somerset DL FRICS (born December 30, 1952 in Bath ), from 1954 to 1984 called Lord Seymour , is a peer and large landowner in Wiltshire and Devon .

Live and act

Lord Somerset is the son of Percy Seymour, 18th Duke of Somerset and Jane Thomas. He attended school at Hawtreys and Eton College and inherited the Dukedom in 1984 when his father died. He was a Member of the House of Lords from 1984 to 1999 and lost his seat under the House of Lords Act 1999 . From 2009 to 2014 he ran four times unsuccessfully in a by-election for a vacant seat among the hereditary nobility, until he was finally re-elected as a crossbencher in the House of Lords on December 10, 2014 . He succeeded David Lytton-Cobbold, 2nd Baron Cobbold , who resigned on October 13, 2014.

He became Deputy Lieutenant for Wiltshire in 1993 and Devon in 2003.

His residence is Bradley House in Maiden Bradley , Wiltshire .

family

He married Judith-Rose Hull, daughter of John Folliett Hull, on May 20, 1978 at All Saints' Church , Maiden Bradley , Wiltshire . The couple has four children:

• Sebastian Seymour, Lord Seymour (* Queen Charlotte's Hospital , London , February 3, 1982), married on August 27, 2006 to Arlette Marie Leontine Lafayeedney, Lagrasse , France
• Lady Sophia Rose Seymour (* 1987)
• Lady Henrietta Charlotte Seymour (* 1989)
• Lord Charles Thomas George Seymour (* 1992)

swell

• Burke's Peerage
• The Duke of Somerset , obituary in The Times , Saturday November 17, 1984

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} 'SOMERSET, 19th Duke of', in Who's Who 2012 (A. & C. Black, 2012); online edition (subscription required) by Oxford University Press , December 2011, accessed December 8, 2011.

Web links

• Ducal House of Somerset
• John Seymour at Hansard (English)

predecessor	Office	successor
Percy Seymour	Duke of Somerset 1984 – present	current title holder