Sir John Seymour was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons

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  from 1646 to 1648.

Seymour was the son of Sir Thomas Seymour of Frampton Cotterell

Frampton Cotterell

Frampton Cotterell is a village and parish, in South Gloucestershire, south west England on the River Frome. The village is continuous with Winterbourne to the south-west and Coalpit Heath to the east. The parish borders Iron Acton to the north and Westerleigh to the south-east, the large town of...

. He was knighted at Greenwich on 9 April 1605. He succeeded to his father's estates in 1627 being then 40 years old or more.

In November 1646, Seymour was elected Member of Parliament

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 for Gloucestershire

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 in the Short Parliament

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. He sat until 1648 when he was excluded under Pride's Purge

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Seymour died in 1663 and was buried at the church of St Mary Bitton

Bitton

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where there is monument decorated with female
supporters and weepers.

Seymour married the daughter of John Syms of Poundesford, Somerset.