Henry Danby Seymour

Henry Danby Seymour (1 July 1820 – 4 August 1877)[1] was a British gentleman and Liberal Party politician.

[2] A member of the Liberal Party, Seymour sat as Member of Parliament (MP) for Poole from 1850 to 1868 and served as Joint Secretary to the Board of Control, the body which oversaw the activities of the East India Company, from 1855 until the Company's abolition in 1858.

He translated as A History of Egypt Under the Pharaohs a work in two volumes by Heinrich Karl Brugsch, with Philip Smith: this was published in 1879, after his death.

[4] Seymour gathered a large collection of Old Masters, among other things Albrecht Dürer's Portrait of a Peasant Woman (now in the British Museum), and the triptych attributed to Goswin van der Weyden entitled St Catherine and the Philosophers (now in the National Gallery, London).

[5] He also owned a cabinet embellished with Japanese lacquer panels and ormolu mounts attributed to Adam Weisweiller which was delivered to Louis XVI at Versailles in 1784.