SEYMOUR, HENRY, son of Francis Seymour MP, Sherborne, Dorset, and Elizabeth, widow of Edward Richard Montagu, Viscount Hinchingbroke MP, Col. 37th Foot, and dau. of Alexander Popham MP, Littlecote, Wilts.; half-brother of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (qv); b.; adm. (aged 9) Mar 1738/9 (Powell's); left 1747; New Coll. Oxford, matr. 23 Apr 1747; Grand Tour (Italy) 1751-2; a Groom of the Bedchamber 16 Feb 1763 – 17 Jan 1765; MP Totnes 7 Apr 1763-8, Huntingdon 1768-74, Evesham 1774-80; settled at Prunay, near Versailles, France 1778; the neighbour and penultimate lover of Madame Du Barry; returned to England in 1792; his property in France was confiscated, and bundles of his tradesmens’ bills and other papers are now in the Archives Nationales, Paris; author of a French prose translation of William Mason’s poem The English Garden, 1788; m. 1st, 24 Jul 1753 Lady Caroline Cowper, only dau. of William Cowper, 2nd Earl Cowper; m. 2nd, 5 Oct 1775 Louise Thérèse, widow of Comte Guillaume de Panthou, and dau. of Charles de La Martillière, Seigneur de Chançay; d. 14 Apr 1807. DNB.
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Houses
- NT Armfeild's
- NT Ashburnham
- NT Ashby's
- NT Atwood's
- NT Bainbrigg's
- NT Benthall's
- NT Best's
- NT Bourne's
- NT Burges'
- NT Busby's
- NT Butler's
- NT Chelsum's
- NT Clapham's
- NT Clarke's
- NT College
- NT Dale's
- NT Dean's
- NT Desaguliers'
- NT Douglas'
- NT Dryden's
- NT Du Brieux's
- NT Durand's
- NT Edwards'
- NT Finch's
- NT Fox's
- NT Geary's
- NT Gibson's
- NT Grant's
- NT Greet's
- NT Guthry's
- NT Guyneham's
- NT Hakluyt's
- NT Hart's
- NT Hawkins'
- NT Heath's
- NT Hodgson's
- NT Homeboarders'
- NT Howe's
- NT Hume's
- NT Hutton's
- NT Jackson's
- NT James'
- NT Jones'
- NT Langton's
- NT Levett's
- NT Liddell's
- NT Lloyd's
- NT Ludford's
- NT Macklin's
- NT Majendie's
- NT Maskelyne's
- NT Mellisham's
- NT Milne's
- NT Morel's
- NT Morrison's
- NT Ottey's
- NT Packharness'
- NT Peirson's
- NT Philips'
- NT Playford's
- NT Porten's
- NT Powell's
- NT Prat's
- NT Preston's
- NT Price's
- NT Purcell's
- NT Rigaud's
- NT Russel's
- NT Scott's
- NT Smalridge's
- NT Smalwell's
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- NT Smith's
- NT Stelfox's
- NT Stephens'
- NT Stikeman's
- NT Taylor's
- NT Watts'
- NT Williams'
- NT Woodcock's
- NT Wren's
- NT Wynniate's