Sir Edward Seymour, 5th Baronet

Sir Edward Seymour, of Berry Pomeroy, 5th Baronet, MP (1660 or 1663 – 29 December 1740/1741)^[1] of Bradley House, Maiden Bradley, Wiltshire was an English landed gentleman and politician.

He was a son of the Royalist and Tory politician Sir Edward Seymour, 4th Baronet, by his first wife, Margaret Wale. He succeeded his father in 1708, inheriting the huge original Bradley House. This house, completed in 1710, had enabled the family to leave their crumbling seat at Berry Pomeroy Castle.

Family

He married the niece of his stepmother Laetitia Popham (d. 1738), daughter of Sir Francis Popham, of Littlecote, Wiltshire (d. 28 August 1674), and wife Eleanor Rogers, and granddaughter of Alexander Popham and wife Letitia Carre, by whom he had twelve children:

• Edward Seymour, 8th Duke of Somerset (1694–1757)
• Francis Seymour, of Sherborne, Dorset (1697–1761)
• Alexander Seymour (d. 3 April 1731), unmarried
• William Seymour, of East Knoyle, Wiltshire (1713 – 5 January 1746/1747), m. firstly 17 April 1737 Elizabeth Hippye (d. 22 March 1741/1742), daughter of John Hippye, of Frome, Somerset, and wife, m. secondly 2 August 1745 Mary Hyde (d. 8 November 1753), daughter of Samuel Hyde, of Bromley, Kent, and wife, without any issue from both marriages
• Laetitia Seymour, married John Gapper and had issue
• Margaret Seymour, married Richard Jones, of Ramsbury
• Elizabeth Seymour (d. 5 May 1756), married Henry Hungerford, of Field
• Anne Seymour (d. February 1755), married William Scroggs, of Chute Lodge
• Eleanor Seymour (d. bef. 1756?), unmarried
• Mary Seymour, married Rev. Hammond
• Jane Seymour, married William Colman, of Garnhay
• Katherine Seymour, married John Philip Fuhr, of Bristol

References

External links

• Ducal House of Somerset