Richard Sturgis Seymour

Richard Sturgis Seymour, MVO (21 September 1875 – 21 April 1959) was a British diplomat who served as British Minister to Siam and to Bolivia.

[1] Seymour entered HM Diplomatic Service in 1898 and served at Berlin, Paris, Teheran, Vienna, St Petersburg, and Copenhagen.

A poet, Seymour published Rhyme Unreasoned (1938), Shaded Candles (1939), The Marionettes, and Selected Poems: Afterthoughts.

[1][2] Seymour married in 1911 Lady Victoria Alexandrina Mabel FitzRoy (died 1969), daughter of the Rev.

Lord Charles Edward FitzRoy, son of Augustus FitzRoy, 7th Duke of Grafton, and a goddaughter of Queen Victoria; they had two sons and a daughter.