Sir Edward Seymour, 3rd Baronet (10 September 1610 – 4 December 1688) of

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was an English politician who sat in the

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at various times between 1640 and 1688. He fought for the

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cause in the

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Seymour was the eldest son of

Sir Edward Seymour, 2nd Baronet Sir Edward Seymour, 2nd Baronet (c. 1580 – 5 October 1659) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1601 and 1625. He was an ambassador to Denmark. During the English Civil War, he supported the Roya ...

, of

, and his wife Dorothy Killegrew and a descendant of

Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (150022 January 1552) (also 1st Earl of Hertford, 1st Viscount Beauchamp), also known as Edward Semel, was the eldest surviving brother of Queen Jane Seymour (d. 1537), the third wife of King Henry VI ...

, in the senior line. Because of the adultery of the Duke's first wife, the Dukedom had been entailed with preference to the sons of his second marriage. In April 1640, Seymour was elected

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for

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in the

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. He was re-elected MP for Devon for the

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in November 1640.History of Parliament Online - Seymour, Sir Edward, 3rd Bt.
/ref> He was appointed a colonel in the Royalist army in 1642 and was disabled from sitting in parliament in 1643. In the latter part of the Civil War, he was imprisoned in

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and was not released until 1655. He inherited the

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Berry Pomeroy Berry Pomeroy is a village and civil parish in the South Hams district of Devon, England, east of the town of Totnes. The parish is surrounded clockwise from the north by the parishes of Ipplepen, Marldon, Torbay (unitary authority), Stoke Gabri ...

on the death of his father in 1659.George Edward Cokayne ''Complete Baronetage, Volume 1'' 1900
/ref> After the

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in 1660, Seymour became Deputy Lieutenant for Devon, In 1661 he was elected MP for

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in the

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and sat until 1679. He was appointed

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in 1677 and held the position until his death. He served as

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for 1679–80. He was re-elected MP for Totnes in 1685 and sat until his death. Seymour died at the age of 78 and was buried on 7 December 1688. After his death, an inventory of Berry Pomeroy Castle was drawn up.

Family

Seymour married Anne Portman (died 1695) in 1630, the daughter of Sir John Portman, 1st Baronet, of

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(25 November 1612), and his wife Anne Gifford. They had five sons and two daughters: *

Sir Edward Seymour, 4th Baronet Sir Edward Seymour, of Berry Pomeroy, 4th Baronet, MP (1632/1633 – 17 February 1708) was a British nobleman, and a Royalist and Tory politician. Life Born at Berry Pomeroy Castle in Devon, of a family greatly influential in the Western coun ...

(1633–1708) *Capt. Hugh Seymour *Capt. Charles Seymour *William Seymour, died unmarried *

Henry Seymour Portman Henry Seymour later Portman (c. 1637–1728), of Orchard Portman, Somerset, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England and then Great Britain almost continually between 1679 and 1715. Early life Seymour was the fifth s ...

, of Orchard Portman, Somerset (c. 1637 – 23 February 1728), who assumed the name of Portman on inheriting from his cousin

Sir William Portman, 6th Baronet Sir William Portman, 6th Baronet (5 September 1643 – 18 March 1690) FRS was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1661 and 1690. Portman was the son of Sir William Portman, 5th Baronet and his wife Anne Colles, daughte ...

, married firstly to Penelope Haslewood, daughter of Sir William Haslewood, of

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, and married secondly to Meliora Fitch, daughter of William Fitch, of High Hall,

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. His widow married Thomas Fownes. He died without issue by either of his marriages *Elizabeth Seymour, married to Sir Joseph Tredenham, of

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*Jane Seymour, married William James Edwards

Ancestry

References

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