Colonial Despatches

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.