Sir Edward Seymour, 1st Baronet
- Sir Edward Seymour, 1st Baronet
Sir Edward Seymour, 1st Baronet (c. 1563 – 10 April 1613) was member of Parliament for Devon, twice sheriff for Devon and an army colonel.[Citation]
author = Stewart Brown
title = Berry Pomeroy Castle
journal = Devon Archaeological Society
volume = 54
pages = 210-211
year =
date = 1996
issn = 0305-5795] Born at Berry Pomeroy Castle of a family greatly influential in the Western counties, he was the grandson of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, in the senior line. At age 13 he married Elizabeth Champernowne of Dartington Hall, after being betrothed to her for some ten years.[cite book ]
title=Berry Pomeroy Castle
author=Deryck Seymour and Jack Hazzard
publisher=Deryck Seymour
location=Torquay
pages=69-71
year=1982
isbn=0 9505949 1 1] and responsible for an area from Dartmouth to Plymouth.
author = J. J. Alexander
title = Devon Country Members of Parliament, Part IV, The Tudor Period (1485-1603)
journal = Rep. Trans. Devon. Ass. Advmt Sci.
volume = XLVII
pages = 369-370
date = 1915] [Citation
author = J. J. Alexander
title = Devon Country Members of Parliament, Part V, The Stuart Period (1603-1688)
journal = Rep. Trans. Devon. Ass. Advmt Sci.
volume = XLVIII
pages = 330
date = 1916] He spent a large amount of money extending Berry Pomeroy Castle, [Over £20,000, according to John Prince in his "Worthies of Devon", 1697] particularly with the addition of the north range in about 1600.
From around 1611, as a result of the large expenditure on his home, the cost of supporting his eight children and legal expenses, he was apparently short of money. [He wrote to his son Walter, who was studying at Oxford, urging him to be economical because a "cross fortune in the law" had added £2,000 to his debts and the total was crushing.]
title=The Buildings of England — Devon
author=Bridget Cherry & Nikolaus Pevsner
publisher=Penguin
location=Harmondsworth
pages=166
year=1989
isbn=0 14 071050 7]
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