(1729 - 1807) of Sherborne, Dorset, 1st s. of Francis Seymour; educ. Westminster and New Coll. Oxf. 1747; m. 1 1753 Ldy. Caroline Cowper (d. 1773), dau. of 2nd E. Cowper, 2 1775 Louise ThIérèse de Chançay, wid. of comte de Panthou; MP 1763 - 80; lived in Paris 1775 - 92.
1751 Florence (Jan.)
1774 - 5 Florence (by 8 Oct. 1774 - 11 May 1775), Pisa (13 May)
Henry Seymour was in Florence in January 1751,1 and was presumably the Mr Seymour who gave encouragement to the young James Russel in Rome sometime in 1751 - 2.2 Seymour had again 'gone abroad' in June 1752 after his intended marriage with Lady Diana Egerton had fallen through,3 but he was next in Italy, it appears, in 1774 - 5, with his two daughters by his first wife, Caroline (b. 1755) and Georgiana (b. 1756).
'Mylord Symur con due sue sig. Figlie' arrived in Florence by 8 October 1774 to stay with Lord Cowper, his brother-in-law.4 He had intended to stay in Florence through the summer of 1775, but his daughter Caroline's engagement to William Danby led to their departure on 11 May, but not before Seymour had shown a certain preference for the Countess of Albany, the Young Pretender's young wife.5 On 13 May 1775 they passed through Pisa on their way to London (the daughters named as 'Carlotta' and 'Georgina').4 For Caroline Seymour's subsequent visit to Italy in 1788, see William Danby.
1. Wal.Corr., 20:216. 2. Add.41169, f.58v (J. Russel, 14 Jun. 1752). 3. Wal.Corr., 37:340. 4. Gazz.Tosc. 5. Wal.Corr., 24:94 and n8.