Background
He was the son of Richard Sturgis Seymour and Lady Victoria Alexandrina Mabel FitzRoy. Rosemary Nest Scott-Ellis, daughter of Thomas Scott-Ellis, 8th Baron Howard de Walden and Margherita van Raalte, on 1 June 1946.
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George Seymour
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He was educated at Winchester College.
Career
This marriage produced two children
Miranda Jane Seymour (b 8 August 1948)
Thomas Oliver Seymour (b 20 October 1952)
He spent much of his life working for the preservation of Thrumpton Hall, his home in Thrumpton, Nottinghamshire. He had moved here when he was one, in 1924. Although he moved back to his family when they returned to London 18 months later, he spent his holidays here.
At the age of 13, he was writing school essays about life as a squire - or a squarson.
He fought in the Second World War between 1941 and 1942, with the King"s Royal Rifle Corps (60th Rifles), and was invalided. After his uncle"s death in 1949, with heavy death-duties Seymour was compelled to buy the house he had expected to inherit and, in a country auction, as many of its contents as he could afford.
He borrowed £50,000, (£1,577,707 as of 2016) and by selling the majority of the estate, paid it back within the year. He held the office of High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire for 1966-1967.
He was a Justice of the Peace for Nottinghamshire for over 30 years.
He had been the longest-serving member on the Council of the Magistrates" Association and between 1975 and 1978 he served as chairman of the association"s Juvenile Courts Committee. He also held the office of Deputy Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire. He was a great supporter, benefactor and President of Thrumpton Village Cricket club from 1949.
When the Thrumpton club lost its ground on Church Lane at the end of 1967, he offered the use of his park and since 1968 the ground has been one of the most picturesque in the County.
Membership
He was also a member of Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club and Marylebone Cricket Club, but the village club enjoyed much of his time amidst a wide variety of public duties.
