Sir Edward Seymour, 5th Baronet

Sir Edward Seymour, of Berry Pomeroy, 5th Baronet (1660 or 1663 – 29 December 1740) of Bradley House, Maiden Bradley, Wiltshire was an English landowner and Tory politician.

Early life

Seymour was baptized on 18 December 1663, the eldest son of the Royalist and Tory politician Sir Edward Seymour, 4th Baronet and his first wife, Margaret Wale. He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford in 1679. He married his cousin Laetitia Popham, the daughter of Sir Francis Popham, of Littlecote, Wiltshire, and his wife Eleanor Rogers, on 11 August 1685.

Seymour succeeded his father on 17 February 1708 to the baronetcy and the huge original Bradley House in Wiltshire.

Death and legacy Seymour died on 29 December 1740. By his wife he had twelve children:

Edward Seymour, 8th Duke of Somerset (1694–1757) Francis Seymour, of Sherborne, Dorset (1697–1761) Alexander Seymour (d. 3 April 1731), unmarried William Seymour, of East Knoyle, Wiltshire (1713 – 5 January 1746/1747), m. firstly 17 April 1737 Elizabeth Hippye (d. 22 March 1741/1742), daughter of John Hippye, of Frome, Somerset, and wife, m. secondly 2 August 1745 Mary Hyde (d. 8 November 1753), daughter of Samuel Hyde, of Bromley, Kent, and wife, without any issue from both marriages Laetitia Seymour, married John Gapper and had issue Margaret Seymour, married Richard Jones, of Ramsbury Elizabeth Seymour (d. 5 May 1756), married Henry Hungerford, of Field Anne Seymour (d. February 1755), married William Scroggs, of Chute Lodge Eleanor Seymour (d. bef. 1756?), unmarried Mary Seymour, married Rev. Hammond Jane Seymour, married William Colman, of Garnhay Katherine Seymour, married John Philip Fuhr, of Bristol

His estate passed to his eldest son, Edward, who reunited the two branches of the Seymour family when he inherited the dukedom of Somerset in 1750.