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Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Sir Julian Roger Seymour, CBE 1945-2025

 Sir Julian Seymour, CBE, who died 23 March, 2025, aged 80, organised a rudderless Margaret Thatcher after her ejection from Downing Street, running her private office from 1991 until he retired in 2001; a director of her Foundation from 1992 to 2011, he was later her trustee and executor. He was a scion of the Marquesses of Hertford.

He was born 19 March, 1945, the second son of Lieutenant-Colonel Evelyn Roger Seymour (1908-87), and his wife the former Rosemary Evelyn Flower; and married in 1984, Diana Elizabeth Griffith, by whom he had a son, Archie (born  1989), and a daughter, Rose (born 1987). 

He was descended from the 1st Marquess of Hertford.

He was appointed CBE in 2001, and knighted in 2014.

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