Alfred Seymour

Who was Alfred Seymour?

Alfred Seymour of Knoyle House, Wiltshire, and of Trent MP, JP was a British Liberal Party politician.

He was a son of Henry Seymour of Knoyle House, Wiltshire, of Trent and of Northbrook and wife Jane Hopkinson, and brother of Henry Danby Seymour of Trent.

He was elected as a Member of Parliament for Totnes at a by-election in January 1863, and held the seat until the borough was disenfranchised in 1868. He returned to the House of Commons the following year, when he was elected at a by-election for Salisbury, and held that seat until his defeat at the 1874 general election.

Seymour was also a Justice of the Peace. He succeeded in Knoyle House, Wiltshire, in 1863.