b. 1800-09-29
d. 1874-06-19
Michael Hobart Seymour was an Irish anti-Catholic writer and clergyman.1 He left Ireland around 1834 and settled in Bath, England, where he married a woman
named Maria Thomas.2
In 1844, Seymour took his wife to Rome, where he collected the material for two of
his controversial anti-Catholic books.3
In an enclosure to
this letter,
Staines discusses a book recommendation from
Boys and inquires about more books by Seymour.
- 1. W.P. Courtney, Seymour, Michael Hobart, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- 2. Ibid.
- 3. Ibid.