Background
Educated at Hawtreys and Eton College, he qualified as a chartered surveyor before succeeding to the dukedom in 1984 on the death of his father.
Educated at Hawtreys and Eton College, he qualified as a chartered surveyor before succeeding to the dukedom in 1984 on the death of his father.
Eton College.
Having lost his seat in the House of Lords under the House of Lords Acting 1999, His Grace was elected at the December 2014 HoL By-election, to sit as a Crossbencher in the Upper House. The Duke"s principal seat is Bradley House, Maiden Bradley, Wiltshire, and he also owns Berry Pomeroy Castle in Devon. His Grace was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Wiltshire in 1993 and for Devon in 2003.
The present Duke is the son of Percy Seymour, 18th Duke of Somerset, and Jane, Dowager Duchess of Somerset (née Thomas, died 2005).
Sebastian Edward, Lord Seymour (b Queen Charlotte"s Hospital, London, 3 February 1982), m. 27 August 2006 Arlette Marie Léotine, daughter of Daniel Lafayeedney, of Louisiana Grasse, France
Lady Sophia Rose Seymour (b 1987)
Lady Henrietta Charlotte Seymour (b 1989)
Lord Charles Thomas George Seymour (b 1992).
In 2015 the Duke was involved in a dispute over a plan to build housing on ancestral land he owns at Totnes, Devon.