Algernon St Maur, 14th Duke of Somerset

Algernon Percy Banks St Maur, 14th Duke of Somerset (né Seymour; 22 December 1813 – 2 October 1894) was an English aristocrat.

Early life

St Maur was born at Park Lane, Mayfair, in 1813, the third son of Edward St Maur, 11th Duke of Somerset and Lady Charlotte Hamilton, daughter of the 9th Duke of Hamilton.

He was educated at Eton.

Career

St Maur served as a captain in the Royal Horse Guards. His father died in 1855. St Maur succeeded his elder brothers Edward (1804–1885), and Archibald (1810–1891), both of whom died without living male heirs, in the dukedom.

Personal life

On 17 May 1845, he married Horatia Isabella Harriet Morier (1819–1915), daughter of diplomat John Philip Morier and Horatia Maria Frances Seymour (eldest daughter of Lord Hugh Seymour, himself the youngest son of the 1st Marquess of Hertford). Together, they had four sons:

• Algernon St Maur, 15th Duke of Somerset (1846–1923), who married Susan Margaret Richards Mackinnon, the ninth daughter of Charles Mackinnon of Corriechatachan in 1877.
• Lord Percy St Maur (1847–1907), a Major in the 1st Battalion, Royal Fusiliers; he married the Hon. Violet White, daughter of Luke White, 2nd Baron Annaly.
• Lord Ernest St Maur (1847–1922), who married Dora Constable, daughter of the Rev. John Constable, in 1907.
• Lord Edward St Maur (1849–1920), a Lieutenant in the 60th Rifles; he married Lilian Stanhope, daughter of John Stanhope, in 1879.

He died suddenly while visiting the Wells, Somerset home of Charles Clement Tudway (the son of MP Robert Tudway). He experienced indigestion followed by an apparent heart attack.

Ancestry

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