Through Princess Mary, Lady Frances Brandon, Lady Catherine Grey, and the Lords Beauchamp,The Brudenell and Tollemache Lines
This volume covers the descent from Edward Seymour, Viscount Beauchamp, his son, William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset, and his son Henry Seymour, Baron Beauchamp. The latter’s daughter Lady Elizabeth Seymour married Thomas Bruce, 3rd Earl of Elgin, and this volume covers their descendants, and those of Frances, Lady Worsley. It includes the Earls of Dysart, and the vast Tollemache family. Amongst descendants are Lord Hardinge of Penshurst, Viceroy of India; Archibald Sinclair, Leader of the Liberal Party, and Churchill’s wartime Secretary for Air; the restored Earls of Annandale, Sir Philip de Zulueta; Harry Judd, the drummer for the rock band McFly; and Shireen Shah, the Coronation Street TV actress; and families in the Commonwealth, the U.S.A. and continental Europe.