Henry Seymour (Knoyle)

Henry Seymour MP, JP, of Knoyle House, East Knoyle, Wiltshire, of Trent, and of Northbrook, was a British Tory politician.
He was the only son of Henry Seymour, of Redland Court, Gloucestershire and his second wife, the Comtesse de Panthou.
He was elected as a Member of Parliament for the borough of Taunton at the 1826 general election, having contested the borough unsuccessfully in 1820, and held the seat until he stood down at the 1830 general election. He was also a Justice of the Peace.

Family

He married on 12 June 1817 Jane Hopkinson, daughter of Benjamin Hopkinson, of Bath and of Blagdon Court, Somerset. They had five children:

Henry Danby Seymour, of Trent
Alfred Seymour, of Knoyle House, Wiltshire, and of Trent
Jane Seymour, m. 21 August 1847 Philip Pleydell-Bouverie, of Brymore, son of Hon. Philip Pleydell-Bouverie, and had issue
Sarah Ellen Seymour, m. 14 May 1857 William Ayshford Sanford, of Nynehead Court, Somerset
Louisa Caroline Harcourt Seymour, m. 2 September 1862 Maj.-Gen. Sir Creswicke Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, by whom she had two sons

With Félicité Dailly-Brimont he had an illegitimate daughter Henriette Félicité who married Sir James Tichborne, 10th Baronet, father of Roger Charles Tichborne, the heir who was lost at sea in 1854 and whose impersonator, Arthur Orton, was 'The Tichborne Claimant' in the famous trial. Félicité Dailly-Brimont was reputed to have been the illegitimate daughter of the Duc de Bourbon Conti and his mistress Marie Claude Gaucher-Dailly.