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Edward Adolphus Seymour, eleventh duke of Somerset
(1775-1855)
NAME AUTHORITIES:
LOC:    Somerset, Edward Adolphus Seymour, Duke of, 1775-1855
NRA:    Seymour Edward Adolphus (1775-1855) 11th Duke of Somerset
DNB:    Seymour, Edward Adolphus, eleventh duke of Somerset (1775-1855), scholar
LBT ID: DuSomer11    VIAF ID: 38333493    LOC ID: n84806051		B/BAP:   1775-02-24
DIED:   1855-08-15
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; thePeerage.com; LOC Name Authority File
The son of the tenth duke (d. 1793), educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford he was an accomplished scholar elected to the Royal Society in 1797, the Society of Antiquaries in 1816, and the Linnean Society in 1820. From 1801 to 1838 was president of the Royal Literary Fund.
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