Lieutenant Colonel Hugh Henry John Seymour (25 September 1790 – 2 December 1821) [1] was a British Army officer and a politician. He sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom for County Antrim from 1818 until his death. [2]
Seymour was the second son of Vice-Admiral Hon. Lord Hugh Seymour Conway (1759–1801) of Hambledon in Hampshire, a younger son of the 1st Marquess of Hertford. His mother Lady Anna Horatia Waldegrave, was the daughter and co-heir of the 2nd Earl Waldegrave, Colonel Sir Horace Beauchamp Seymour was his younger brother. [2]
In 1818, he married Lady Charlotte Georgiana Cholmondeley, daughter of George Cholmondeley, 1st Marquess of Cholmondeley. They had one son: [2]
Seymour was educated at Harrow. [2] He joined the British Army in 1805 as an ensign in the Scots Guards. He was promoted to captain in 1811, and to lieutenant colonel in 1815. [2] He became an equerry in ordinary in 1818, and in 1820 he became a lieutenant colonel on half-pay of the 71st (Highland) Regiment of Foot. [2]