Seymour
Seymour names 6 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Seymour an historic family
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
an historic family, originally settled in Normandy at St. Maurwhence the name. Going over to England, they obtained lands in Monmouthshire as early as the 13th century, and in the 14th at Hatch Beauchamp, Somersetshire, by marriage with an heiress of the Beauchamps. In 1497 SIR JOHN SEY- MOUR helped to suppress the insurrection of Lord Audley and the Cornish rebels, and subsequently he accompanied Henry VIII. to his wars in France, and to the Field of the Cloth of Gold. For his daughter, see SEYMOUR, LADY JANE; his fourth son, THOMAS, created Lord Seymour of Sudeley, became Lord High Admiral of England and the second husband of Henry's widow (Catharine Parr), but ended his life on the scaffold (1549). Sir John's eldest son, EDWARD, was successively created Viscount Beauchamp, Earl of Hertford, and Duke of Somerset, and as Protector played the leading part in the first half of the reign of EDWARD VI. (q. v.). The Protector's eldest son by his second marriage, being created by Elizabeth Earl of Hertford, married the Lady Catharine Grey, a grand-niece of Henry VIII., and sister of the unfortunate Lady Jane Grey-a marriage which entailed on him a nine years' imprisonment and a fine of $75,000. His grandson, who in 1621, succeeded him in the earldom of Hertford, also fell into disgrace for attempting to marry the Lady Arabella Stuart, cousin of James I., but subsequently, playing a conspicuous part in the royalist cause in the Great Rebellion, obtained a reversal of the Protector's ho attainder, and in 1660 took his seat in attainder, the House of Peers as 3d Duke of Somerset, though the descendants of the first duke, by his first marriage, were then in existence. He died unmarried in 1671, and the ducal title ultimately passed to a cousin, on whose death it was inherited by CHARLES SEYMOUR (1661-1748), known in history as the "Proud Duke of Somerset," a nobleman whose style of living was ostentatious and haughty in the extreme, and who filled several high posts in the courts of Charles II., William III., and Anne. He married the heiress of the Percies, by whom he had a son, ALGER- NON, 7th duke, who in 1749 was created Earl of Northumberland , with remainder to his son-in-law, Sir Hugh Smithson, the ancestor of the present Percy line. On the death of this duke in 1750 a curious peerage case arose, the title being claimed by the descendants of the 1st duke by his first marriage ; and the attorney-general having reported in favor of the claim, SIR EDWARD SEYMOUR took his seat in the House of Peers as 8th duke. The earldom of Hertford, which became extinct in 1750, was in that same year conferred on this 8th duke's first cousin, FRANCIS , who in 1793 was advanced to the dignity of marquis.
Seymour HORATIO, an American statesman
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HORATIO, an American statesman; born in Pompey Hill, Onondaga co., N. Y., May 31, 1810. After serving three terms, with marked ability, in the New York Legislature, in 1852 he was elected governor on the Democratic ticket. At the outbreak of the Civil War he was decidedly in favor of the supremacy of the Constitution , and as governor a second time (1863-1865 ) showed conspicuous energy and ability in raising troops. His second incumbency of the governorship was marked by the draft riots in 1863. In 1868 he was defeated for the presidency by General Grant. As an orator, Mr. Seymour was easy, agreeable, and powerful, rising often into true eloquence. He died in Utica, N. Y., Feb. 12, 1886.
Seymour SIR EDWARD HOBART, a British admiral
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SIR EDWARD HOBART, a British admiral, born 1840. He was educated at Radley and entered the navy in 1852. He became commander in 1866, reaching the grade of admiral in 1901. He served in the Black Sea during the Crimean War and was present at the bombardment of Odessa , Sebastopol, and Kinburn in 1854-5. He was in the China War, was present at the capture of Canton, and was wounded on the coast of Africa in 1870. He was commander-inchief at Devonport in 1903-5 and represented England at New York for the Hudson Fulton celebration in 1909. He wrote: "My Naval Career and Travels."
Seymour a city of Indiana
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city of Indiana, in Jackson co. It is on the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern, Southwestern, the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis, ouis, and and the Chicago, Ch Terre Haute, and Southeastern railroads. Its industries include woolen mills, flour mills, printing houses, saw mills, furniture factories, carriage factories, etc. It has the repair shops of the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern railroad. Its public buildings include a public library and a farmer's club building. Pop. (1910) 6,305; (1920) 7,348.
Seymour a town of Connecticut
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a town of Connecticut, in New Haven co. It is on the Naugatuck river, and on the New York, New Haven, and Hartford railroad. It is an important industrial city and has manufactures of paper, iron castings, wire, tools, submarine cables, copper, fountain pens, etc. Pop. (1910) 4,786; (1920) 6,781.
Seymour LADY JANE, the third wife of Henry VIII
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
LADY JANE, the third wife of Henry VIII., and the mother of Edward VI.; born in England , about 1510. She was at first maid of honor to Anne Boleyn, whom she supplanted in 1536. She died Oct. 24, 1537 , a few days after giving birth to her son.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
The historical entries stand: Jane Seymour is still remembered as Henry VIII's third wife, dead days after bearing Edward VI in 1537 (modern historians blame puerperal complications rather than any conspiracy), and Horatio Seymour is still best known for losing the 1868 presidential election to Grant. The most conspicuous gap is in the notice of Sir Edward Hobart Seymour, described in 1921 only as a Crimean and China veteran: it omits the episode he is now remembered for, the failed relief column he led toward Peking during the Boxer Rising of 1900, and he died in 1929, eight years after Collier's wrote. The two towns have grown steadily rather than dramatically rom 7,348 people in 1920, Seymour, Indiana now has roughly 21,000, and Seymour, Connecticut, then 6,781, has about 16,000; the railroad repair shops and woolen mills that defined them have gone. The Seymour dukedom of Somerset, whose tangled 1750 succession case the article recounts at length, is still held by the family today.
Written for this edition, 2026.