Frances Seymour, duchess of Somerset [née Thynne]

(1699-1754)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Somerset, Frances Seymour, Duchess of, 1699-1754 NRA: Seymour Frances (d 1754) nee Thynne wife of 7th Duke of Somerset Lady of the Bedchamber and Literary Patron DNB: Seymour [née Thynne], Frances, duchess of Somerset (1699–1754), poet and letter writer LBT ID: DsSomer7 VIAF ID: 66844504 LOC ID: nr93036508	B/BAP: 1699-05-10 DIED: 1754-07-10
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The daughter of Henry Thynne; in 1715 she married Algernon Seymour, afterwards seventh duke of Somerset. She was a friend of Elizabeth Singer Rowe and patroness of James Thomson, Lady of the Bedchamber, and a notable letter-writer
REFERENCES TO Frances Seymour, duchess of Somerset [née Thynne]: Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1801 Found 1: ¶ 3