Henry Danby Seymour (1 July 1820 – 4 August 1877) was a British gentleman and Liberal Party politician.
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Life
Seymour was the eldest son of Henry Seymour and wife Jane Hopkinson. Alfred Seymour was his brother. He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford in 1838, graduating B.A. in 1842. In 1862 he was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn.
A member of the Liberal Party, Seymour sat as Member of Parliament (MP) for Poole from 1850 to 1868 and served as Joint Secretary to the Board of Control, the body which oversaw the activities of the East India Company, from 1855 until the Company's abolition in 1858. In November 1876 he was elected to the London School Board.
Works
Seymour climbed Mount Ararat with Khachatur Abovian in 1846, and wrote two topographical works, Russia on the Black Sea and Sea of Azof and Caravan Journeys and Wanderings in Persia, Afghanistan, Turkistan, and Beloochistan.
In 1856 Seymour donated fragments of the Tomb of Sobekhotep, Thebes, to the British Museum. He translated as A History of Egypt Under the Pharaohs a work in two volumes by Heinrich Karl Brugsch, with Philip Smith: this was published in 1879, after his death.