Edward Adolphus Seymour Seymour, 12th duke of Somerset (1804–85)

Statesman. Liberal MP for Okehampton, 1830; for Totnes, 1834–55. Lord of the Treasury, 1835; secretary to the Board of Control, 1839; under-secretary, Home Department, 1841; commissioner of works, 1851–2; first lord of the Admiralty, 1859–66.