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Algernon Seymour seventh Duke of Somerset
Standard Name: Somerset, Algernon Seymour,,, seventh Duke of
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Seymour Countess of Hertford | Sixteen-year-old Frances Thynne
(an heiress, conduit for considerable family wealth) married the thirty-year-old Algernon Seymour, Earl of Hertford
, whose father, the Duke of Somerset
, had chosen her as bride for his son and heir. Hughes, Helen Sard. The Gentle Hertford, Her Life and Letters. Macmillan, 1940. 15 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Seymour Countess of Hertford | Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford
, and her husband
became Duchess and Duke of Somerset on the death of the latter's father
. Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press, 1910–1959, 14 vols. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Seymour Countess of Hertford | Algernon Seymour, seventh Duke of Somerset
, husband of Frances Seymour, formerly Lady Hertford
, died after being intermittently crippled with gout for years. Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press, 1910–1959, 14 vols. |
| Textual Features | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | All the mock eclogues (written, like most of Montagu's more ambitious poetry, in heroic couplets with the occasional triplet) target actual individuals and refer to events which were gossip of the day. Monday, Wednesday... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Frances Seymour Countess of Hertford | The first event she records was an ultimatum from the Prince of Wales
to his father, George II
, whom he enraged by demanding Walpole's removal. She describes how, after Walpole fell, power struggles among... |
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