Henry Ker Seymer

{{short description|British politician}}

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|office = Member of Parliament
for Dorset

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|term_start = 19 February 1846

|term_end = 28 May 1864

|alongside = Henry Portman (18571864)
Henry Sturt (18561864)
John Floyer (18461857)
George Bankes (18461856)

|predecessor = Anthony Ashley-Cooper
Henry Sturt
George Bankes

|successor = Henry Sturt
Henry Portman
John Floyer

|birth_date = 1807

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|nationality = British

|party = Conservative

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Henry Ker Seymer (1807 – 28 May 1864){{cite web |last1=Rayment |first1=Leigh |title=The House of Commons: Constituencies beginning with "D" |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Dcommons2.htm |website=Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page |accessdate=31 July 2018 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180731203755/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Dcommons2.htm |archivedate=31 July 2018 |url-status=usurped |date=13 June 2017 }} was a British Conservative politician.

Seymer was first elected Conservative MP for Dorset, alongside John Floyer, at a by-election in 1846—caused by the resignations of Anthony Ashley-Cooper and Henry Sturt—and held the seat until his death in 1864.{{cite book|editor1-last=Craig|editor1-first=F. W. S.|editor-link=F. W. S. Craig|title=British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885|date=1977|publisher=Macmillan Press|location=London|isbn=978-1-349-02349-3|edition=1st|type=e-book |pages=380–381}}

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