Sir Henry Seymour, 1st Baronet (20 October 1674 – April 1714), of Langley, Buckinghamshire, was an English landowner and Tory politician who sat in the

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from 1699 to 1713. Seymour was the second son of Henry Seymour, of Langley,

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, and his second wife Ursula Austen, daughter of

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, and widow of George Stawale. He was the paternal grandson 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 of England, House of Commons between 1601 and 1625. He was an ambassador to Denmark. During the English Civ ...

, and wife Dorothy Killegrew. He was created 1st Baronet Seymour, of Langley, at the age of seven on 4 July 1681. His father died on 9 March 1687, and he inherited Langley Park and his father's reversionary grant of the clerkship of the hanaper office. From 1693 he travelled abroad for three years. Seymour was returned unopposed as Tory Member of Parliament for East Looe at a by-election on 17 January 1699 in the interest of his cousin Bishop Trelawny of Exeter. He was returned again unopposed at the two general elections of 1701 and in

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. He voted against the Court candidate for Speaker on 25 October 1705. Returned again at the

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, he voted against the impeachment of Dr Sacheverell in 1710. He was returned again at the

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. He was one of the 'worthy patriots' who detected the mismanagements of the previous administration and a member of the

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. He stood down at the

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, probably through ill=health. Seymour died unmarried and without issue in

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in April 1714. Langley Park, Buckinghamshire was sold in 1714 to

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