Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset (
13 August,
1662–
December 2,
1748), sometimes referred to as the "Proud Duke". The son of
Charles Seymour, 2nd Baron Seymour of Trowbridge, and Elizabeth Bennett, he succeeded his brother
Francis Seymour, 5th Duke of Somerset, to the dukedom when the latter was shot in
1678. He also inherited the title of Baron Seymour of Trowbridge.
Charles was educated at
Trinity College, Cambridge; and in
1682 he married a great heiress,
Elizabeth Percy, daughter of
Joceline Percy, 11th Earl of Northumberland, who brought him immense estates, including
Alnwick Castle,
Petworth House,
Syon House and
Northumberland House in
London.
In
1683, Somerset received an appointment in the king’s household, and two years later a colonelcy of dragoons; but at the revolution he bore arms for the
Prince of Orange. Having befriended
Princess Anne in
1692, he became a favourite of hers after her accession to the throne, receiving the post of
Master of the Horse in
1702. Finding himself neglected by
Marlborough, he made friends with the
Tories, and succeeded in retaining the queen’s confidence, while his wife replaced the Duchess of Marlborough as
Mistress of the Robes in
1711.
In the memorable crisis when Anne was at the point of death, Somerset acted with
Argyll,
Shrewsbury and other
Whig nobles who, by insisting on their right to be present in the
Privy Council, secured the
Hanoverian succession to the Crown.
He retained the office of Master of the Horse under
George I till
1716, when he was dismissed and retired into private life; he died at Petworth on
2 December 1748. The duke’s first wife having died in
1722, he married secondly, in
1726, Charlotte, daughter of the
2nd Earl of Nottingham. He was a remarkably handsome man, and inordinately fond of taking a conspicuous part in court ceremonial; his vanity, which earned him the sobriquet of "the proud duke," was a byword among his contemporaries and was the subject of numerous anecdotes;
Macaulay’s description of him as "a man in whom the pride of birth and rank amounted almost to a disease," is well known.
The Duke was a founding governor of the
Foundling Hospital in London,
1739 – the country's first and only children's home for foundlings (
abandoned children).
Issue
Charles and Lady Elizabeth had four children:
On
February 4 1725, he married, Lady Charlotte Finch (
1711–
1773), daughter of
Daniel Finch, 7th Earl of Winchilsea and had two children:
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Charles Seymour, 2nd Baron Seymour of Trowbridge (c.1621 – August 25, 1665), was the son of Francis Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Trowbridge, whom he succeeded in the barony in 1664.
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Elizabeth Seymour, Duchess of Somerset (26 January 1667–24 November 1722)[1] was an English courtier and Whig politician.
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Born Elizabeth Percy at Petworth House, she was the only surviving daughter of Lord Percy (later Earl of Northumberland)
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Petworth House in Petworth, West Sussex, England, is a late 17th-century mansion, rebuilt in 1688 by Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, and altered in the 1870s by Anthony Salvin.
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Syon House and its 200 acre (800,000 m²) park is situated in southwest London, in England. It belongs to the Duke of Northumberland and is now his family's London residence. The family's traditional central London residence was Northumberland House.
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Northumberland House was a large Jacobean mansion in London, which was so called because for most of its history it was the London residence of the Percy family, who were the Earls and later Dukes of Northumberland, and were one of England's richest and most prominent aristocratic
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John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (26 May 1650 – 16 June 1722) (O.S)[1] was an English soldier and statesman whose career spanned the reigns of five monarchs throughout the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
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John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll and 1st Duke of Greenwich KG (October 10, 1678 – October 4, 1743) was a Scottish soldier and nobleman. His titles were extremely high in the precedence of the Scottish peerage.
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Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, KG, PC (24 July 1660–1 February 1718) was the only son of the 11th Earl of Shrewsbury and his second wife, formerly Lady Anne-Marie Brudenell, a daughter of 2nd Earl of Cardigan (she became the notorious mistress of the 2nd Duke of
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