Description: Up for auction a RARE! "12th Duke of Somerset" Edward Seymour Hand Signed Envelope Panel. There is staining on this item as shown but not affecting the integrity of this rare item. ES-6122E Edward Adolphus Seymour (later St. Maur), 12th Duke of Somerset, etc., KG, PC (20 December 1804 – 28 November 1885), styled Lord Seymour until 1855, was a British Whig aristocrat and politician, who served in various cabinet positions in the mid-19th century, including that of First Lord of the Admiralty. Somerset was the eldest son of Edward St. Maur, 11th Duke of Somerset, and Lady Charlotte, daughter of Archibald Hamilton, 9th Duke of Hamilton.[ He was baptized on 16 February 1805 at St. George's, Hanover Square, London. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. Somerset sat as Member of Parliament as Lord Seymour[2] for Okehampton between 1830 and 1831[3] and for Totnes between 1834 and 1855.[4] He served under Lord Melbourne as a Lord of the Treasury between 1835 and 1839, as Joint Secretary to the Board of Control between 1839 and 1841 and as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department between June and August 1841 and was a member of Lord John Russell's first administration as First Commissioner of Woods and Forests between 1849 and 1851, when the office was abolished. He served on the Royal Commission on the British Museum (1847–49).[5] In August 1851 he was appointed to the newly created office of First Commissioner of Works by Russell. In October of the same year he entered the cabinet and was sworn of the Privy Council.[6] He remained First Commissioner of Works until the government fell in February 1852. Somerset succeeded his father in the dukedom in 1855 and entered the House of Lords. He did not serve in Lord Palmerston's first administration, but when Palmerston became Prime Minister for a second time in 1859, Somerset was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty, with a seat in the cabinet.[2] He held this post until 1866, the last year under the premiership of Russell. He refused to join William Ewart Gladstone's first ministry in 1868, but gave independent support to the chief measures of the government. He was made a Knight of the Garter in 1862[7] and in 1863 he was created Earl St. Maur, of Berry Pomeroy in the County of Devon. "St. Maur" was supposed to have been the original form of the family name and "Seymour" a later corruption. From some time in the early 19th century until 1923, "St. Maur" was used for the family name, but since 1923 the dukes have again used the familiar "Seymour". Somerset was also the author of Christian Theology and Modern Scepticism (1872), and Monarchy and Democracy (1880).[2] Between 1861 and 1885 he served as Lord Lieutenant of Devon.
Price: 249.99 USD
Location: Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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Royalty: British Royalty
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Theme: Royalty
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