Seymour, Henry Danby (1820 -1877)

Henry Danby Seymour of Trent was the eldest son of Henry Seymour of Knoyle House, in Wiltshire, Northbrook in Devon, and Trent in Somerset, and Jane, daughter of Benjamin Hopkinson of Bath, and Blagdon Court in Somerset. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, where he matriculated 17 October 1838, and took his B.A. in 1842. He was admitted a student of Gray's Inn and was called to the bar in 1862. He was Member of Parliament for Poole 1850 1868, Joint Secretary of the Board of Control 1855 1858, and a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant for Wiltshire and Somerset. He died unmarried 4 August 1877..