Somerset

(Edward Adolphus Saint Maur ), 12th Duke of , b. 20 Dec. 1804. Educated at Eton and Oxford. He married a daughter of Thomas Sheridan. Sat as M.P. for Totnes, ’34–35, and was Lord of the Treasury, ’35–39, and First Lord of the Admiralty, ’59–66. In ’72 he startled the aristocratic world by a trenchant attack on orthodoxy entitled Christian Theology and Modern Scepticism . He also wrote on mathematics and on Monarchy and Democracy. Died 28 Nov. 1885.