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Edward Adolphus Seymour Seymour, 12th duke of Somerset

1804–85

Statesman. Liberal MP for Okehampton, 1830; for Totnes, 1834–55. Lord of the Treasury, 1835; secretary to the Board of Control, 1839; under-secretary, Home Department, 1841; commissioner of works, 1851–2; first lord of the Admiralty, 1859–66.

Source

DNB.

Bibliography

DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.

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