Henry Danby Seymour

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Henry Danby Seymour as a child, 1827

Henry Danby Seymour (1 July 1820 – 4 August 1877)[1] was a British gentleman and Liberal Party politician.

Life

Seymour was the eldest son of

called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn.[2]

A member of the Liberal Party, Seymour sat as

Joint Secretary to the Board of Control, the body which oversaw the activities of the East India Company, from 1855 until the Company's abolition in 1858. In November 1876 he was elected to the London School Board.[3]

Works

Seymour climbed Mount Ararat with Khachatur Abovian in 1846, and wrote two topographical works, Russia on the Black Sea and Sea of Azof and Caravan Journeys and Wanderings in Persia, Afghanistan, Turkistan, and Beloochistan.

In 1856 Seymour donated fragments of the

Tomb of Sobekhotep, Thebes, to the British Museum. He translated as A History of Egypt Under the Pharaohs a work in two volumes by Heinrich Karl Brugsch, with Philip Smith: this was published in 1879, after his death.[4]

Collector

Seymour gathered a large collection of

National Gallery, London).[5]
He also owned a cabinet embellished with Japanese lacquer panels and ormolu mounts attributed to
Versailles in 1784. Seymour loaned the cabinet to the Victoria and Albert Museum one year prior to his death in 1877.[6]

References

  1. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "P" (part 2)
  2. Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource
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  3. ^ "The London School Board Elections". Daily News. 2 December 1876.
  4. ^ Brugsch, Heinrich (1879). A History of Egypt Under the Pharaohs: Derived Entirely from the Monuments. J. Murray.
  5. ^ Henry Danby Seymour MP (1820–1877) as a child, by Johannes Notz. Bonhams. Retrieved at 24 October 2012
  6. ^ Jonathan Bourne, "A Newly Discovered French Royal Cabinet", Apollo, Vol. CXIV, No. 234, (August 1981), pp. 93–96

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Poole
1850 – 1868
With: Sir George Philips to 1832
George Woodroffe Franklyn 1852–1859
Charles Waring from 1859 		Succeeded by


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