Henry Danby Seymour Q.C. (1 July 1820 – 4 August 1877) was a Liberal Party politician and barrister.
Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, graduating BA in 1842, he was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1862.
Seymour was MP for Poole from 1850 to 1868 and served 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.
He was a wealthy art and antiquities collector. He owned Albrecht Durer's Portrait of a Peasant Woman (now in the British Museum), and the triptych attributed to Goswin van der Weyden entitled St Catherine and the Philosophers (now in the National Gallery).[1] In 1856 he donated fragments of the Tomb of Sobekhotep, Thebes, to the British Museum.
In November 1876 he was elected to the London School Board as a representative of Westminster.[2] He died suddenly of "apoplexy" on 4 August 1877 while visiting his sister in Bridgwater, Somerset.
Wikipedia page [1] and Wikisource page [2] refer.
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- ↑ Henry Danby Seymour MP (1820-1877) as a child, by Johannes Notz. Bonhams. Retrieved at 24 October 2012
- ↑ "The London School Board Elections". Daily News. 2 December 1876.