Edward Adolphus Ferdinand Seymour, Earl St. Maur (17 July 1835 – 30 September 1869, in Dover Street, London), also 13th Baron Seymour in his own right, was a British aristocrat and soldier. Background He was the eldest son of Edward Seymour, 12th Duke of Somerset, and Georgiana Sheridan. He was styled Lord Seymour until 1863 when his father was created Earl St Maur, of Berry Pomeroy, and he adopted his father's new creation as a courtesy title. He was commonly known as Ferdy. He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford in 1853. Seymour attended the 1856 coronation of Alexander II of Russia, as attaché to Lord Granville. Military career Seymour joined the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry Cavalry as a cornet in 1856. He briefly served as a volunteer on the staff in the Anglo-Persian War (1855–1857), alongside Lord Schomberg Kerr and Ulick de Burgh, Lord Dunkellin, and was assigned by James Outram to work with his Political Secretary Robert Lewis Taylor (c.1821–1905) of the Bombay Native Infantry. Shortly afterwards, he was at the Relief of Lucknow during the Indian Rebellion (1857–1858). His gallantry was recognised by Sir Colin Campbell. Back in England, Seymour commanded the 1st Buckinghamshire Rifle Volunteer Corps. He also was a cornet in the 4th Dragoon Guards. He resigned his Guards commission at the beginning of 1860, and positions of Captain Commandant in the Wiltshire militia by June 1860. Seymour went to Italy a civilian volunteer in 1860, and joined Giuseppe Garibaldi's Esercito Meridionale (Southern Army) as a private soldier. He assumed the rank of captain on the basis of his British militia rank; and called himself by the pseudonym "Captain Richard Sarsfield". He distinguished himself in the Battle of Volturnus in October of that year. Garibaldi later confirmed his rank of Captain, by November. Scott affair In 1860, Seymour horsewhipped Charles Alexander Scott of Garibaldi's forces in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. Court cases followed. Captain Scott Seymour's victim, known as Captain Scott for military purposes, was Karl Blumenthal, British-born in London in 1803. He had spent much time in Italy, where he used the name Carlo Alessandro Scott or Blumenthal. He died in 1866. (While he was in some way connected to the noted Blumenthal Jewish merchant family of Venice, to which Olga Blumenthal belonged, nothing definite seems to be known, according to the dissertation of Emilia Peatini.) Blumenthal's mother was reported to be Venetian, and