Seymour is the family name of which English duke?
Seymour family Hobart Seymour was the nephew of Sir Michael Seymour (1802–1887). Seymour, William. 1972. "Ordeal by Ambition: An English Family in the Shadow of the Tudors". New York: St. Martin’s. Strickland, Agnes, and Antonia Fraser. 2011. "Agnes Strickland's Lives of the Queens of England". New York: Continuum International Publishing Group. Seymour family Seymour, or St. Maur, is the name of an English family in which several titles of nobility have from time to time been created, and of which the Duke of Somerset is the head. The family was settled in Monmouthshire in the 13th century. The original form of the
Seymour family which he retained till 1841, when he was promoted to the rank of rear-admiral and appointed a lord of the admiralty; his eldest son, Francis George Hugh Seymour (1812–1884), succeeded his cousin Richard Seymour-Conway as 5th marquess of Hertford in 1870. Lord Hugh Seymour's younger son, Sir Horace Beauchamp Seymour, was the father of Frederick Beauchamp Paget Seymour, Baron Alcester. A younger branch of the great house of Seymour is said to have settled in Ireland in the reign of Elizabeth, from which Sir Michael Seymour, 1st Baronet (1768–1834) claimed descent. Sir Michael, like so many of his name, was