Horace James Seymour

Sir Horace James Seymour GCMG CVO (26 February 1885 – 10 September 1978) was a British diplomat who served in Washington, D.C., Tehran, the Hague, Rome, and Chongqing.

[2] Seymour entered the Foreign Office and Diplomatic Service in 1908.

[2][1] On 8 May 1944, Seymour presented the insignia of a Knight Commander of the Bath to He Yingqin, Chinese Minister of War and Chief of the General Staff, in Chongqing.

[3] Between April 1947 and July 1947, Seymour was a member of the Franco-Siamese Boundary Commission sitting in Washington, D.C., and in December 1947 he was appointed as chairman of the British Delegation to the Balkans Commission, based at Salonika, Greece.

[1] In 1917, Horace James Seymour married Violet, a daughter of Thomas Edward Erskine, and they had three daughters, Jane (who died in infancy), Joan, and Virginia, and one son, Hugh Francis Seymour (1926—2010).