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the third Marquess, the original of Disraeli's Lord Monmouth and 

 Thackeray's Lord Steyne, the founder of the '' Wallace Collection " at 

 Hertford House. There is a chapter on Naval and Military Seymours, 

 the Irish branch of the family is touched on, and the line of the later 

 Dukes of Somerset shortly summarised down to the present day. The 

 13th Duke, who succeeded in 1885, " took the name of St. Maur instead 

 of the corrupted form Seymour and his example has been followed by 

 his successors." An appendix on Somerset House, and a good index, 

 complete the volume, which does not pretend to be a family history, 

 but rather a series of chapters on the more remarkable persons and 

 events in that family history. 



The portraits are :— Queen Jane Seymour ; Edward Seymour, Duke 

 of Somerset, the Protector ; Thomas, Lord Seymour of Sudeley ; Lady 

 Arabella (Stuart) Seymour ; Elizabeth (Alington) Lady Seymour, wife 

 of Charles, 2nd Baron Seymour of Trowbridge ; Charles, 6th Duke of 

 Somerset, the Proud Duke ; Sir Edward, 4th Baron Seymour of Berry 

 Pomeroy, the Speaker ; Francis Seymour Conway, 1st Marquess of 

 Hertford; Isabella Anne, 2nd wife of 2nd Marquess of Hertford; 

 Francis Charles Seymour Conway, 3rd Marquess of Hertford; 

 Admiral George Francis Seymour. 



John Hungerford Pollen. 1820—1902. By Anne 



Pollen. With portraits and illustrations. London -. John Murray, 

 Albemarle Street, W. 1912. 



8vo, linen, pp. x. + 396. Price 15s. net. The book is written by 

 his daughter, and the preface signed by his widow Maria Margaret 

 Pollen. There are thirty illustrations, of which five are portraits 

 of J. H. Pollen, a pencil drawing of 1823, an oil portrait of 1838, a 

 drawing by Alphonse Legros in 1876, and photographs of 1885 and 

 1898. The other illustrations are chiefly of drawings, buildings, 

 decorations, &c., designed or executed by himself, as well as six pen- 

 and-ink sketches in the text. 



John Hungerford Pollen was born in London, Nov. 19th, 1820, son 

 of Richard Pollen, of Bodbourne, and Anne Cockerell, his wife, and 

 brother of Sir Hungerford Pollen. He was brought up chiefly at 

 Rodbourne. He went to school first at Durham House, Chelsea, and 

 passed on to Eton in 1833. His father died Feb. 7th, 1838, and in the 

 same year he went up to Christ Church, Oxford, where he at once came 

 under the influence of J. H. Newman and the Oxford Movement, which 

 had begun five years before. He became Fellow of Merton, was 

 ordained deacon at Oxford in 1845, was curate of St. Peter le Baily, 

 Oxford, for a time, and afterwards threw himself into the work at St. 

 Saviour's, Leeds, then, perhaps, the most extreme in teaching and 

 ceremonial of all the "Tractarian" Churches. A large part of the 

 book is taken up with the troubles of this time, and the standpoint 

 from which it is written deals out scant justice to such men as Dr. Hook, 

 the great Vicar of Leeds, whose action is consistently described as 

 " furious " or " frantic." But making allowance for this, the story of 





