Popham Seymour-Conway

Popham Seymour-Conway, born Seymour (1675 – 18 June 1699)^[1] was an Anglo-Irish landowner and rake, the eldest son of Sir Edward Seymour, 4th Baronet by his second marriage to Laetitia Popham, daughter of Alexander Popham.

On 9 August 1683, the Earl of Conway, his mother's cousin, left him his extensive estates in Warwickshire and Lisburn, on condition that he change his name to Seymour-Conway.^[2] Considerable suspicion was aroused by this transaction, displacing as it did Arthur Rawdon, Conway's nephew; it was thought that Sir Edward had taken advantage of the Earl's senility to bring it about.^[3]

In 1697, Seymour-Conway became Member of Parliament for Lisburn, site of his new estates, in the Irish Parliament.^[4]

On 4 June 1699, during a drunken duel with Captain George Kirk, of the Royal Horse Guards, Seymour-Conway was wounded in the neck. He succumbed to the effects of the wound two weeks later, on 18 June in London.^[4] The Conway estates passed to his brother Francis, who also assumed the name of Seymour-Conway and was created Baron Conway.^[1]

References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lodge, Edmund (1832). Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage. Saunders and Otley. p. 187. Retrieved 2007-08-01. 
2. ↑ (firm), Oxford Journals (1881-01-08). "Rawdon Family". Notes and Queries (Oxford University Press) (54): 27. Retrieved 2007-08-01. 
3. ↑ Hutton, Sarah (2004). Anne Conway: A Woman Philosopher. Cambridge University Press. p. 218. ISBN 0-521-83547-X. Retrieved 2007-08-01. 
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Neill, Trevor (Winter 1995). "Lisburn Parliamentary Representatives in the 17th Century (1663-1700)" 9. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-08-01. 

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