Portman baronets

Sir Henry Portman, 2nd Baronet (died 1620–1 or 1623), was Member of Parliament for Somerset, and married Lady Anne Stanley, daughter of William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby; they had no children.

His heir was his brother Sir John Portman, 3rd Baronet (1605–1624), who died unmarried as a 19-year-old undergraduate at Wadham College, Oxford, in the chapel of which exists his elaborate marble monument containing his effigy.

His brothers, the 4th and 5th Baronets, both represented Taunton in the House of Commons.

[1] The family estates passed under a settlement to Henry Seymour, fifth son of Sir Edward Seymour, 3rd Baronet, of Berry Pomeroy, and Anne, the second daughter of Sir John Portman, 1st Baronet.

The property then devolved upon William Berkeley, of Pylle, who took the surname Portman.