Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset the pride of birth and rank amounted almost to a disease". Charles was the second son of Charles Seymour, 2nd Baron Seymour of Trowbridge (died 1665), of Marlborough Castle in Wiltshire, by his wife Elizabeth Alington (1635–1692). The 2nd baron was (in a junior line) a great-great-grandson of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (executed 1552), brother of Queen Jane Seymour, uncle of King Edward VI and Lord Protector of England. Charles was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where his portrait by Nathaniel Dance-Holland survives in the College's collection. In 1675, Charles's elder brother Francis Seymour, 5th
Webb Seymour, 10th Duke of Somerset Webb Seymour, 10th Duke of Somerset Webb Seymour, 10th Duke of Somerset (3 December 1718 – 15 December 1793) was the son of Edward Seymour, 8th Duke of Somerset and his wife, the former Mary Webb. He was also a baronet. He was baptized on 4 December 1718 at Easton, Wiltshire. He inherited his titles from his brother Edward Seymour, 9th Duke of Somerset, in 1792. He died in Maiden Bradley, Warminster, Wiltshire, on 24 December 1793, and was buried there. In London on 11 or 15 December 1769, he married Anna Maria or Mary Anne Bonnell (d. London, Upper