Percy Seymour, 18th Duke of Somerset

Portrait by Allan Warren
Percy Seymour, 18th Duke of Somerset (1910-1984) in front of his seat Bradley House in the parish of Maiden Bradley, Wiltshire

Percy Hamilton Seymour, 18th Duke of Somerset (Crowborough, 27 September 1910 15 November 1984), styled Lord Seymour between 1931 and 1954, of Bradley House in the parish of Maiden Bradley, Wiltshire, was a British peer.

Origins

He was the son of Evelyn Seymour, 17th Duke of Somerset by his wife Edith Parker, a daughter of William Parker by his wife Lucinda Steeves.

Life

He was educated at Blundell's School, Tiverton in Devon, and at Clare College, Cambridge. He was subsequently commissioned into the Wiltshire Regiment. He saw service in India, Persia and Burma.

Marriage & progeny

In London on 18 December 1951, he married Gwendoline Collette Jane Thomas (d. 18 February 2005, aged 91), daughter of Major John Cyril Collette Thomas, of Burn Cottage, Bude, Cornwall, by whom he had three children:

Ancestry

References

  1. "England and Wales Census, 1901". FamilySearch.org. FamilySearch. Retrieved 21 April 2016.

External links

Peerage of England
Preceded by
Evelyn Seymour
Duke of Somerset
19541984
Succeeded by
John Seymour
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