Researching Alfred Seymour

Seymour was the son of British Diplomat Sir George Hamilton Seymour and the Hon. Gertrude, daughter of Henry Trevor, 20th Baron Dacre. He was educated at Rugby School, although he did not represent the college cricket team.

Seymour later became an Ensign in the 16th Regiment of Foot, before transferring to the Rifle Brigade in 1861. He was promoted to Lieutenant in 1866, before retiring from military service in 1869.

In the same year as his retirement from the army, Seymour made his first-class debut for Lancashire against Sussex at the Royal Brunswick Ground in Brighton. This was the only first-class match he played for Lancashire.

The following year Seymour represented Hampshire in a single first-class match against his former club Lancashire, at Old Trafford.

The 1881 Census has Seymour living with his family at Hollybrook House, Millbrook, Hampshire, with his profession stated as a magistrate.

Seymour died at Folkestone, Kent on 31 January 1897.

The son of Henry Seymour, he was born in St. John's and was educated at the Methodist College there. He apprenticed as a draper but then joined his father's grocery business. Seymour was named customs officer at Harbour Grace. He was appointed sheriff for the Northern district in 1892, then was named judge in the district court for Harbour Grace in 1895 and magistrate at Greenspond in 1897. From 1900 to 1908, he was magistrate at Harbour Grace. Seymour was also a freemason and was involved in the temperance movement. He ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the Newfoundland assembly in 1908 but was elected the following year. Seymour died in office in 1912.

He is buried at the St. John's Anglican Church Cemetery at St. John's, Avalon Peninsula Census Division, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.