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:

• Algernon St Maur, 15th Duke of Somerset (22 July 1846 – 29 October 1923)
• Major Lord Percy St. Maur (11 November 1847 – 16 July 1907), m. the Hon. Violet White, daughter of Luke White, 2nd Baron Annaly and had issue.^[4]
• Lord Ernest St. Maur (11 November 1847 – 21 May 1922)
• Lord Edward St. Maur (7 February 1849 – 15 September 1920)

Ancestry

Ancestors of Algernon St Maur, 14th Duke of Somerset

Sir Edward Seymour, 5th Baronet               Edward Seymour, 8th Duke of Somerset                       Laetitia Popham               Webb Seymour, 10th Duke of Somerset                             Daniel Webb               Mary Webb                       Elizabeth Somner               Edward Adolphus St Maur, 11th Duke of Somerset                                   Andrew Bonnell               John Bonnell                       Anna Maria/Mary Anne Bonnell                             Algernon St Maur, 14th Duke of Somerset                                         James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton               James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Hamilton                       Elizabeth Gerard               Archibald Hamilton, 9th Duke of Hamilton                             Anne Spencer                       Lady Charlotte Douglas-Hamilton                                   James Stewart, 5th Earl of Galloway               Alexander Stewart, 6th Earl of Galloway                       Catherine Montgomerie               Harriet Stewart                             John Cochrane, 4th Earl of Dundonald               Lady Catherine Cochrane

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.