Richard Sturgis Seymour, MVO (21 September 1875 – 21 April 1959) was a British diplomat who served as British Minister to Siam and to Bolivia. A member of the

Seymour family Seymour, Semel or St. Maur, is the name of an English family in which several titles of nobility have from time to time been created, and of which the Duke of Somerset is the head. Origins The family was settled in Monmouthshire in the 13th cen ...

, Richard Seymour was the son of Colonel Leopold Seymour and the grandson of the diplomat Sir George Hamilton Seymour. The courtier Sir Edward Seymour was his brother. Seymour was educated at

Eton College Eton College () is a public school in Eton, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1440 by Henry VI under the name ''Kynge's College of Our Ladye of Eton besyde Windesore'',Nevill, p. 3 ff. intended as a sister institution to King's College, C ...

and

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, and abroad. Seymour entered HM Diplomatic Service in 1898 and served at

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, Teheran,

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, and

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. He was Secretary of Legation at

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from 1915 to 1918, British Minister to Siam from 1919 and 1924 and British Minister to Bolivia from 1924 to 1926. A poet, Seymour published ''Rhyme Unreasoned'' (1938), ''Shaded Candles'' (1939), ''The Marionettes'', and ''Selected Poems: Afterthoughts''.

Family

Seymour married in 1911 Lady Victoria Alexandrina Mabel FitzRoy (died 1969), daughter of the Rev. Lord Charles Edward FitzRoy, son of

Augustus FitzRoy, 7th Duke of Grafton Augustus Charles Lennox FitzRoy, 7th Duke of Grafton (22 June 1821 – 4 December 1918), styled Lord Augustus FitzRoy before 1882, was a British Army officer. He was the second son of Henry FitzRoy, 5th Duke of Grafton, and his wife Mary Car ...

, and a

goddaughter In infant baptism and denominations of Christianity, a godparent (also known as a sponsor, or '' gossiprede'') is someone who bears witness to a child's christening and later is willing to help in their catechesis, as well as their lifelon ...

Queen Victoria Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until Death and state funeral of Queen Victoria, her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 21 ...

; they had two sons and a daughter.

George Fitzroy Seymour George Fitzroy Seymour (Witley 8 February 1923 - Thrumpton 12 May 1994) was High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire in 1966 and Deputy Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire. Family He was the son of Richard Sturgis Seymour and Lady Victoria Alexandrina Mabel F ...

, sometime High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire, was Seymour's son; the writer

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 ...

is his granddaughter.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Seymour, Richard Sturgis 1875 births 1959 deaths Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Bolivia Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Thailand Members of HM Diplomatic Service Seymour family Members of the Royal Victorian Order People educated at Eton College Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford Punch (magazine) people British poets 20th-century British diplomats