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{{Short description|Duke of Somerset}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific_prefix    = [[His Grace]]
| name                = The Duke of Somerset
| honorific_suffix    =
| image               = File:18th Duke of Somerset 22 Allan Warren.jpg
| image_size          = 200px
| caption             = Portrait of Percy Seymour, 18th Duke of Somerset
| birth_name          = Percy Hamilton Seymour
| birth_date          = {{birth date|1910|09|27|df=y}}
| birth_place         = [[Crowborough]], [[Sussex]], England
| death_date          = {{death date and age|1984|11|15|1910|09|27|df=y}}
| death_place         = [[Warminster]], [[Wiltshire]], England
| spouse              = {{marriage|Jane Thomas|18 December 1951}}
| children            = {{plainlist|
* [[John Seymour, 19th Duke of Somerset]]
* Lady Anne Seymour
* Lord Francis Seymour
}}
| father              = [[Evelyn Seymour, 17th Duke of Somerset]]
| mother              = Edith Mary Parker
| education           = [[Blundell's School]]
| alma_mater          = [[Clare College, Cambridge]]
}}
'''Percy Hamilton Seymour, 18th Duke of Somerset''' (27 September 1910 – 15 November 1984),  styled '''Lord Seymour''' between 1931–54, was a British peer.
==Early life==
He was the son of [[Evelyn Seymour, 17th Duke of Somerset]] by his wife Edith Parker, a daughter of William Parker by his wife Lucinda Steeves (a daughter of [[William Steeves]], one of the [[Canadian Confederation|Fathers of Canadian Confederation]]).<ref name="Mosley2003"/>
He was educated at [[Blundell's School]], [[Tiverton, Devon|Tiverton]] in Devon, and at [[Clare College|Clare College, Cambridge]].<ref name="Mosley2003"/>
==Career==
After Cambridge, he was commissioned into the [[Wiltshire Regiment]]. He saw service in [[India]], [[Persia]] and [[Burma]].<ref name="Mosley2003"/>
==Personal life==
In [[London]] on 18 December 1951, he married Gwendoline Collette ''Jane'' Thomas (d. 18 February 2005, aged 91), daughter of [[Major (United Kingdom)|Major]] John Cyril Collette Thomas, of [[Burn Cottage]], [[Bude]], [[Cornwall]], by whom he had three children:<ref name="Mosley2003"/>
* [[John Seymour, 19th Duke of Somerset|John Michael Edward Seymour, 19th Duke of Somerset]] (b. 1952), who married Judith-Rose Hull, daughter of John Folliott Hull, in 1978.<ref name="Mosley2003"/>
* Lady Anne Frances Mary Seymour (b. 1954), unmarried and without issue.<ref name="Mosley2003"/>
* Lord Francis Charles Edward Seymour (b. 1956), who married Paddy Poynder, daughter of [[Colonel (United Kingdom)|Colonel]] Anthony John Irvine ''Tony'' Poynder, [[Military Cross|MC]], [[Corps of Royal Engineers]], in 1982.<ref name="Mosley2003">{{cite book|last = Mosley|first= Charles ([[editor|ed.]]) |title=Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 107th edn | location= London|publisher= [[Burke's Peerage]] & Gentry Ltd | page = 3678 (SOMERSET, D) | date = 2003 | isbn = 0-9711966-2-1| title-link = Burke's Peerage}}</ref>
The 18th Duke died on 15 November 1984 at [[Warminster]], [[Wiltshire]] and was succeeded in his titles by his elder son, [[John Seymour, 19th Duke of Somerset|John]].<ref>Obituary - The Duke of Somerset, ''[[The Times]]'', Saturday, 17 November 1984.</ref>
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