Charles Seymour, 2nd Baron Seymour of Trowbridge (c. 1621 – 25 August 1665) was an English peer.

Biography

He was the son of

Francis Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Trowbridge Francis Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Trowbridge ( – 12 July 1664), of Marlborough Castle and Savernake Forest, Savernake Park in Wiltshire, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England, House of Commons at various ti ...

, whom he succeeded in the barony in 1664. Francis had been a younger brother of

William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset, (158824 October 1660) was an English nobleman and Royalist commander in the English Civil War. Origins Seymour was the son of Edward Seymour, Lord Beauchamp (who predeceased his own father) by his wife ...

. Prior to his ennoblement, Charles Seymour represented

Great Bedwyn Great Bedwyn is a village and civil parish in east Wiltshire, England. The village is on the River Dun about southwest of Hungerford, southeast of Swindon and southeast of Marlborough. The Kennet and Avon Canal and the Reading to Taunt ...

in the

Short Parliament The Short Parliament was a Parliament of England that was summoned by King Charles I of England on 20 February 1640 and sat from 13 April to 5 May 1640. It was so called because of its short session of only three weeks. After 11 years of per ...

of 1640 and

Wiltshire Wiltshire (; abbreviated to Wilts) is a ceremonial county in South West England. It borders Gloucestershire to the north, Oxfordshire to the north-east, Berkshire to the east, Hampshire to the south-east, Dorset to the south, and Somerset to ...

in the

Cavalier Parliament The Cavalier Parliament of England lasted from 8 May 1661 until 24 January 1679. With the exception of the Long Parliament, it was the longest-lasting English Parliament, and longer than any Great British or UK Parliament to date, enduring ...

from 1661 to 1664. He married firstly, on 4 April 1632, Mary, daughter of Thomas Smith of Soley in

Chilton Foliat Chilton Foliat is a village and civil parish on the River Kennet in Wiltshire, England. The parish is in the North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It is on the county boundary with West Berkshire and is about northwest of th ...

, a village northwest of

Hungerford Hungerford is a historic market town and civil parish in Berkshire, England, west of Newbury, east of Marlborough, and 60 miles (97 km) west of London. The population of the parish at the 2021 census was 5,869. The Kennet and Avon Can ...

. The couple had one son and two daughters; one of their daughters, Frances (bef. 1654–1716), would marry Sir

George Hungerford George William Hungerford, (born January 2, 1944) is a Canadian lawyer and retired rower. He won the only gold medal for Canada at the 1964 Summer Olympics, in coxless pairs with Roger Jackson. The same year they were awarded the Lou Marsh Tro ...

. The Hungerfords had at least six children together. He married secondly, in 1654, Elizabeth Alington (1635–c.1691), daughter of William Alington, 1st Baron Alington of Killard (14 March 1610/1611, d. circa October 1648); they had five sons and two daughters. One of his notable descendants, his three times great-grandson, was the chemist and mineralogist

James Smithson James Smithson (c. 1765 – 27 June 1829) was a British chemist and mineralogist. He published numerous scientific papers for the Royal Society during the early 1800s as well as defining Calamine (mineral), calamine, which would eventually be ...

. The poet George Keate was another descendant. Both of Charles's surviving sons,

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and

Charles Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English language, English and French language, French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic, Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''* ...

, ultimately succeeded to the dukedom of Somerset that had been their grandfather's. His daughter, Honora Seymour, married Sir Charles Gerard, 3rd Baronet.John Burke and Sir Bernard Burke wrote a genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies of England, Ireland and Scotland. Charles Seymour was succeeded in the barony by his elder son, Francis.

References

Sources

* G.E.C. ( G.E.Cokayne) & Geoffrey H. White, ''

The Complete Peerage ''The Complete Peerage'' (full title: ''The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom Extant, Extinct, or Dormant''); first edition by George Edward Cokayne, Clarenceux King of Arms; 2nd edition re ...

'' or ''A history of the House of Lords and all its members from the earliest times'', vol. XI, p. 641, St. Catherine Press, 1949. 1620s births 1665 deaths English MPs 1640 (April) English MPs 1661–1679 C 2 Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for Wiltshire {{1661-England-MP-stub