Thursday, 6 February 2014
410 Alfred Seymour
Constituency : Totnes 1863-8, Salisbury 1869-74
Totnes saw its second by-election in a month following the death of George Hay and once again the Liberals were victorious.
Alfred was a scion of the Seymours of Somerset though not closely related to the Duke. His father had been an MP and his brother Henry was the MP for Poole. He was a keen huntsman and once broke his collarbone in a fall during a hunt. Like his brother he was heavily involved in fighting off the Tichborne Claimant.
Alfred held on to his seat in 1866 when John Pender was disqualified but had to look elsewhere when the constituency was abolished in 1868. He came back in at a by-election in 1869 at Salisbury but lost it in 1874.
He died in 1888 aged 64.
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