George Fitzroy Seymour (

Witley Witley is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Waverley in Surrey, England centred south west of the town of Godalming and southwest of Guildford. The land is a mixture of rural (ranging from woodland protected by the Surrey Hills AO ...

8 February 1923 -

Thrumpton Thrumpton is a village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England. At the time of the 2001 census it had a population of 152, increasing to 165 at the 2011 census. It is located on the A453 road south-west of West Bridgford. The 13th centur ...

12 May 1994) was

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in 1966 and Deputy Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire.

Family

He was the son of Richard Sturgis Seymour and Lady Victoria Alexandrina Mabel FitzRoy. He was educated at

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. He married Hon. Rosemary Nest Scott-Ellis, daughter of Thomas Scott-Ellis, 8th Baron Howard de Walden and Margherita van Raalte, on 1 June 1946. This marriage produced two children * Miranda Jane Seymour (b. 8 Aug 1948) *Thomas Oliver Seymour (b. 20 Oct 1952)

Career

He spent much of his life working for the preservation of

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, his home in

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. He had moved here when he was one, in 1924. His diplomat father had been posted to

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and George's mother went too. Her brother-in-law was the 10th Lord Byron. Although he moved back to his family when they returned to London 18 months later, he spent his holidays here. At the age of 13, he was writing school essays about life as a squire - or a squarson. He fought in the

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between 1941 and 1942, with the

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(60th Rifles), and was invalided. After his uncle's death in 1949, with heavy death-duties Seymour was compelled to buy the house he had expected to inherit and, in a country auction, as many of its contents as he could afford. He borrowed £50,000, (equivalent to £ as of ) and by selling the majority of the estate, paid it back within the year. He held the office of

for 1966–67. He was a Justice of the Peace for Nottinghamshire for over 30 years. He had been the longest-serving member on the Council of the

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and between 1975 and 1978 he served as chairman of the association's Juvenile Courts Committee. He also held the office of Deputy Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire. He was a great supporter, benefactor and President of Thrumpton Village Cricket club from 1949. He was also a member of

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and

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, but the village club enjoyed much of his time amidst a wide variety of public duties. When the Thrumpton club lost its ground on Church Lane at the end of 1967, he offered the use of his park and since 1968 the ground has been one of the most picturesque in the County. He is posthumously the subject of the book ''Thrumpton Hall: A Memoir of Life in My Father’s House'' written by his daughter,

Miranda Seymour Miranda Jane Seymour (born 8 August 1948) is an English literary critic, novelist and biographer. The lives she has described have included those of Robert Graves and Mary Shelley. Seymour, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, has in r ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Seymour, George Fitzroy 1923 births 1994 deaths People educated at Winchester College Deputy Lieutenants of Nottinghamshire High Sheriffs of Nottinghamshire People from Surrey King's Royal Rifle Corps officers