Background
He was born on 29 September 1800, the sixth son of John Crossley Seymour, vicar of Caherelly (d 19 May 1831), who married in January 1789 Catherine, eldest daughter and coheiress of Review Edward Wight, rector of Meelick in Limerick.
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Michael Seymour
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In 1823 he graduated Bachelor of Arts of Trinity College, Dublin, and proceeded Master of Arts
Career
In 1832. He was admitted ad eundem at Oxford on 2 June 1836, and comitatis causa on 26 October 1865. Seymour was ordained deacon in 1823 and priest in 1824. The first thirty-four years of his life were passed in Ireland in clerical work.
An untiring polemicist, he became very unpopular in Ireland, and about 1834 migrated to England.
Foreign several years he was evening lecturer at Street George the Martyr, Southwark, afternoon lecturer at Street Anne, Blackfriars, and travelling secretary for the Reformation Society. In January 1844 Seymour married, at Walcot church, Bath, Maria, only daughter of General Thomas of the East India Company"s service, and widow of Baron Brown-Mill (George Gavin Browne-Mill), physician to Louis XVIII. From that time he resided, when in England, at Bath, and did not hold any preferment in the church.
Seymour died at 27 Marlborough Buildings, Bath, on 19 June 1874, leaving no issue, and was buried at Locksbrook cemetery on 25 June.
