Edward VI of England Edward VI of England Edward VI (12 October 1537 – 6 July 1553) was King of England and Ireland from 28 January 1547 until his death. He was crowned on 20 February at the age of nine. Edward was the son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, and England's first monarch to be raised as a Protestant. During his reign, the realm was governed by a regency council because he never reached his majority. The council was first led by his uncle Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (1547–1549), and then by John Dudley, 1st Earl of Warwick (1550–1553), from
Edward Seymour (British Army officer) Edward Seymour (British Army officer) Major Sir Edward Seymour, (10 February 1877 – 28 February 1948) was a British Army officer and courtier. Seymour was the third son of Leopold Richard Seymour and Mary Hubbard Sturgis; his paternal grandfather was George Hamilton Seymour, a grandson of a Duke of Somerset of the Seymour family. He commissioned into a Militia battalion of the East Surrey Regiment where he advanced to the rank of lieutenant, but transferred to the Grenadier Guards as a second lieutenant on 28 July 1897. He saw active service in the Nile Expedition in 1898 during the Mahdist