Biography
Francis Seymour, 1st Baron Conway of Ragley, 1st Baron Conway of Killultagh, was born 28 May 1679 to Edward Seymour, 4th Bart (1633-1707) and Laetitia Popham (-1714) and died 3 February 1731 of unspecified causes. He married Mary Hyde (-1708) 17 February 1703 . He married Jane Bowden (-1715) 1709 . He married Charlotte Shorter (c1683-1733) July 1716 .
On the death of his elder brother Popham Seymour-Conway in 1699, Francis succeeded to the estates of his mother's relative Edward Conway, 1st Earl of Conway, and assumed the same year by Royal license the additional surname of Conway.
In 1703 he was raised to the Peerage of England as Baron Conway of Ragley, in the County of Warwick, and in 1712 he was created Baron Conway of Killultagh, in the County of Antrim, in the Peerage of Ireland.
Children
Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
Charlotte Seymour-Conway (1717-1717) | |||
Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford (1718-1794) | 5 July 1718 Chelsea, England, United Kingdom | 14 June 1794 Putney, England, United Kingdom | Isabella FitzRoy (1726-1782) |
Henry Seymour-Conway (c1720-1795) | |||
George Augustus Seymour-Conway (1723-1723) | |||
Charles Seymour-Conway (c1725-) | |||
Arabella Seymour-Conway (c1727-) | |||
Anne Seymour-Conway (c1729-1774) |
Footnotes (including sources)
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