Berkeley Seymour 1684-1744
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Berkeley SEYMOUR 1684-1744
Biographical Note
Son of Colonel John Seymour. Fellow of King's College, Cambridge 1706, BA 1707, MA 1710, senior proctor 1729; admitted at the Middle Temple 1705 (barrister 1711, though it is not clear whether he practised law). He had an estate at Bitton, Gloucestershire, where he spent much of his life.
Books
Seymour used an engraved armorial bookplate (Franks 26510); the extent and disposition of his library are not known. His brief will has no mention of books; all his property was left to his sister Jane Seymour.
Sources
- Will of Berkeley Seymour, The National Archives PROB 11/735/355.
- Gambier Howe, E. R. J. Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the ... British Museum. London, 1903.
- Venn, J. and J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge, 1922.