Sir George Hamilton Seymour

(1797-1880)

NAME AUTHORITIES: NRA: Seymour, Sir George Hamilton (1797-1880) Knight Diplomat DNB: Seymour, Sir George Hamilton (1797–1880), diplomatist LBT ID: GeSeymo1880 VIAF ID: 52467739	B/BAP: 1797-09-21 DIED: 1880-02-02
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The eldest son of Lord George Seymour (1763-1848); educated at Eton and Merton College, Oxford, he began a career as a diplomat under Castlereagh and retired shortly before the Crimean War.
REFERENCES TO Sir George Hamilton Seymour: Sydney Smith to Sir George Philips, 20 May 1837 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1: ¶ 4 Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Chapter IX Found 1: ¶ 58 Letters 1837