Horace Seymour

Colonel Sir Horace Beauchamp Seymour (22 November 1791 – 23 November 1851) was an English army officer and Tory politician.

Life Horace Seymour was the son of Admiral Lord Hugh Seymour (son of Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford) and Lady Anne Horatia Waldegrave.

At the Battle of Waterloo, Seymour was aide-de-camp to the cavalry commander Lord Uxbridge. He carried the wounded Uxbridge from the battlefield, after he was hit by grapeshot from a cannon. Seymour later recalled that when hit Uxbridge cried out "I have got it at last," to which the Duke of Wellington replied "No? Have you, by God?"

Going into politics as a Peelite, Seymour was Member of Parliament for Lisburn 1819–1826, Orford (1820), Bodmin (1826–1832), Midhurst (1841–45), Antrim (1845–1847), and Lisburn again, 1847–1851.

Family Seymour married, firstly, Elizabeth Malet Palk, daughter of Sir Lawrence Palk, 2nd Baronet and granddaughter of Sir Robert Palk, on 15 May 1818. He married, secondly, Frances Selina Isabella Poyntz, daughter of William Stephen Poyntz and Hon. Elizabeth Mary Browne, in July 1835.

By his first wife he had three children;

Lt.-Col. Charles Francis Seymour (13 September 1819 – 5 November 1854), killed at the Battle of Inkerman Frederick Beauchamp Paget Seymour, 1st Baron Alcester (12 April 1821 – 30 March 1895) Adelaide Horatia Elizabeth Seymour (27 January 1825 – 29 October 1877), who married Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer

Descendants Seymour has many descendants. Notable among them, his daughter Adelaide was the mother of Charles Spencer, 6th Earl Spencer, who was the great-grandfather of Diana, Princess of Wales. Her sons are William, Prince of Wales, and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex.