Algernon St Maur, 14th Duke of Somerset

"An old fashioned Duke". Caricature by Spy published in Vanity Fair in 1893.

Algernon Percy Banks St. Maur, formerly Seymour, 14th Duke of Somerset, etc. (22 December 1813 – 2 October 1894) was the son of Edward St. Maur, 11th Duke of Somerset and Lady Charlotte Hamilton. He succeeded to the ducal title in 1891;[1] he was also a baronet.

On 17 May 1845, he married Horatia Isabella Harriet Morier, daughter of John Philip Morier.[2][3] They had four children:

Ancestry


References

  1. Joseph Banks (1 January 2000). The Letters of Sir Joseph Banks: A Selection, 1768-1820. World Scientific. p. 389. ISBN 978-1-86094-204-4.
  2. Charles Roger Dod (1855). Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage. S. Low, Marston & Company. p. 663.
  3. Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, Including All the Titled Classes. 1914. p. 1035.
  4. Richard Mead (1 January 2013). The Last Great Cavalryman: The Life of General Sir Richard McCreery, Commander Eighth Army. Casemate Publishers. p. 39. ISBN 978-1-84884-465-0.


Peerage of England
Preceded by
Archibald Seymour
Duke of Somerset
1891–1894
Succeeded by
Algernon St Maur
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