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John Michael Edward Seymour (His Grace).

19th Duke Of Somerset, styled Lord Seymour between 1954 and 1984, is a British aristocratic landowner in Wiltshire and Devon, and a member of the House of Lords. Seymour qualified as a chartered surveyor before succeeding to the dukedom in 1984 on the death of his father. Having lost his seat in the House of Lords under the House of Lords Act 1999, he was elected at the December 2014 House of Lords by-elections, to sit as a crossbencher. He was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Wiltshire in 1993[6] and for Devon in 2003. In 2015, the Duke was involved in a dispute over a plan to build housing on ancestral land he owns at Totnes, Devon.

Spouse: Judith-Rose Hull  

Children: Sebastian Seymour, Lord Seymour, Lady Sophia Seymour, Lady Henrietta Seymour, Lord Charles Seymour

Parents: Percy Seymour, 18th Duke of Somerset, Jane Thomas

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