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 HERTFORD. 229 i Dorchester House. Park lane, 1 March 18-12, in his 65th year, and was bur. the 19th at Arrow.f. 11 ) Will pr. June 1S42. His widow d, in Rue Taitbout, Paris, 2 March 1856, aged Hi, and was bur. at Pere-la-chaise, near that city. Will pr. i July 1S56 and Feb. M&ft Marquessate. "| J h KicnAliD (Seymouk-Coxway), Marquess yjj 08 Hertford, &c, 8. and h., b. 22 Feb. 1S00. Attache y ^i-> *° the Embassv at Paris, 181/ and 1819; mat. at Earldom. c " Oxford (Eft Ooll.), 27 April 1818, as "Vlscorara Beau- „ T „ CHAMP;" styled Earl ok Yarmouth, 1822-42: was AlA - 3 M.P. for co. Antrim, 1821-26; sometime (1S22)' Capt. 22d Dragoons : Attache to the Embassy at Constant- inople, 1829; sue. to the peerage, 1 March 1842 ; K.G., 19 Jan. 1S46; Commander of the Legion of Honour of France, 14 Nov. 1855. He d. at Paris unm. 25 Aug. 1870, aged 70, and was bur. at Pere-la-chaise afsd. Will pr. 20 June 1871, under £500,000. (*) Mavquessate. * q~. Francis Hbgh Geouge (Seymour), yjj j Marquess ok Hertford, &e., cousin and h. male, being J i i>-Q h. and h. of Admiral Sir George Francis Seymour, Earldom. j ' G.C.B. and G.C.H., by Georgiaua Mary, da. of v Admiral the Hon. .Sir George Cranlield Berkeley, J G.C.B., the said George Francis (who 20 Jan. 1870, aged 82), being s. and h. of Admiral Lord Hugh Seymour (who d. 11 Sep. 1 S01 . aged 42), 5th s. of the 1st Marquess. He was 6. 11 Feb. 1812, and //up. at St. Geo. Han. sq. ; ed. at Harrow; entered the Army, Scots Fusileers, 1827, becoming finally, 1876, General ; Groom of the Kobes, 1S33- 70 ; State Steward [I.], 1S43-46 ; Equerry to the Prince Consort, 1846-58, and to the Queen, 1858-70 ; 1 Hp. Hanger of Windsor Park, lS-iO-70 ; sue. to the pea-age, 25 Aug. 1S70 ; Lord Chamberlain of the Household 1*74-79 ; P.C., 1874 ; G.C.B., 24 Jan. 1 ST!'. He «i. 9 May 1839, Emily, (ith da. of William (Murray), 3d Eakl 01' Mansfield, by Frederica, da. of the Most Rev. William Markham, Archbishop of York. He (/. at Kagley Hall, co. Warwick, 25 Jan. 1SS4 (from injuries received on the 21st by a fall from his horse) and was bur. at Arrow, aged 71. His widow, who was b. 22 Nov. 1816, living 1891. Marquessate. "I G. Hugh de Grey (Seyjiour), Marquess jY ok Hertford [1793], Earl uk Hertford [1750], Earl y j 004 ok Yarmouth [17931, Viscount Beauchamf [1750], and Earldom. 1 Ll ~ Baron Conway ok Rag lev [1703], also Baron Conway VVT and KiLi.ULT.uai [1., 1712], a, and h., b. 22 Oct. 1S43, AAl. J m Dublin ; cd. at Sandhurst; sometime, 1862-70, an officer in the Fait Guards ; M.P. for co. Antrim, 1S69-74, and for South Warwickshire, 1874-80 ; styled Earl of Yarmouth, 1S70-S4 ; PC, 1879 ; Comptroller of the Household, 1S79-S0 : sue. to lite peerage, 25 Jan. 18S4. He in. 15 April 1S6S, Mary, 2d da. of Alexander Nelson (Hood;, 1st Vise junt Bridkort, by Mary Penelope, 2d da. of ArtUur Blundell Sandys Trumbull (Hill), 3d Marquess ok Downsiiirk [I.] She was b. 1 June 1846. He was a person of great note in the Court of the Prince Regent in whose household he was Vice Chamberlain, while his father was Lord Chamberlain. On the visit of the allied Sovereigns to England he attended the Emperor Alexander of Russia, receiving from him accordingly the Order of St. Anne. The characters of the '• Marquis of Steyne " in Thackeray's " Vanity Fair " and of " Lord Monmouth " in Disraeli's " ConingsLy " are supposed to represent Mm. (") Ho is said never to have been in England. He left his Irish estates (worth £50,000 a year) and most of his personalty (which included the well known Hertford collection of pictures) to Sir Richard Wallace, Bart, (so cr. 1S66) who is supposed to have been an illegit. son, either of himself (when aged IS), or of his father, or even (not improbably) of his mother ; which Richard (6. in London. 26 July 1S18), d. s.p. at Paris, 20 July 1S90, in his 72d year, and was bur. in the family vault at Pel e-la-chaise. Sir Richard's "art treasures" (derived as above stated) were valued at his death in 1890 at above two millions.