1688–1740) of Orchard Wyndham in Somerset. He was a radical Tory and leader of the Jacobite rebellion of 1715 against King George I, but nevertheless remained a firm favourite of his father-in-law the 6th Duke of Somerset, a firm supporter of the Hanoverian Succession and a Whig. Following his arrest in 1715 for high treason and his imprisonment in the Tower of London, the Duke offered to provide bail for his liberty, which was badly received by the king, who shortly afterwards dismissed him as Master of the Horse. Her eldest son was Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont (1710–1763), who inherited half of the great Percy estates including Petworth House, Egremont Castle in Cumberland and Leconfield Castle in Yorkshire. Lady Anne Seymour (170927 November 1722), 3rd daughter, who married (as his second wife) Peregrine Osborne, Marquess of Carmarthen (1691–1731), later 3rd Duke of Leeds, by whom she had a son who died an infant. She died aged 13 without surviving progeny. Lady Frances Seymour, died unmarried. Secondly on 4 February 1725, at the age of 63 he married Lady Charlotte Finch (1693–1773), a daughter of Daniel Finch, 7th Earl of Winchilsea, later 2nd Earl of Nottingham. He treated her poorly and once told her, after she had gently tapped him on the shoulder with her fan: "Madam, my first wife was a Percy and she never took such a liberty". By Charlotte Finch he had two further children: Lady Frances Seymour (18 July 172825 January 1761), wife of John Manners, Marquess of Granby, eldest son of the Duke of Rutland Lady Charlotte Seymour (21 September 173015 February 1805), wife of Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Aylesford and had issue. Somerset's last known letter to Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, dated 1737, twelve years after his second marriage, declared his unchanged affections for her. The correspondence is preserved in the British Library. Death and burial Somerset died at Petworth on 2 December 1748 and was buried in the Seymour Chapel of Salisbury Cathedral, in Wiltshire, where the elaborate monument to his ancestor Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford (1539–1621), son of the 1st Duke of Somerset, survives. Succession Somerset's son and heir apparent, Algernon Seymour, Earl of Hertford (1684–1749) had in 1725 produced a son of his own, Lord Beauchamp. However, in 1744 this grandson died unexpectedly without having married, and thus his only grandchild was a daughter and sole