Henry Ker Seymer
(1807-1864)

Volume 1, page 4, sitting 18.

Henry Ker Seymer of Hanford House was the Member of Parliament for Dorset. On 4 July, 1839 he married Helen Isabella Webber, youngest daughter of the late W. Webber, Esq. of Binfield Lodge, Berkshire. 

Henry Ker Seymer died on 28 May 1864 at Ranston in Dorset, leaving an estate valued at £25,000. 

A short obituary appeared in The Era on 5 June 1864. 'We regreat to announce the death of Mr Henry Ker Semer, late M.P. for Dorsetshire, who died on Saturday last at Ranston, Dorset, the seat of Sir Edward Baker, aged fifty-seven. Mr Ker Seymer was one of the most respected Members of the House. He was a man of much intelligence and many accomplishments, and, though never in office, would have been, in the estimation of his many friends, a most efficient servant of the Crown, if he had not preferred to maintain his independence in a private station.'