SEYMOUR, Sir Julian Roger CBE 1945-2025

[Richard R]

He was s of Lt-Col Evelyn Roger SEYMOUR 1908-87 (3xgt gs of 1^st Marquess of HERTFORD 1718-94 and Lady Isabella FITZROY 1726-82 d of 2^nd Duke of GRAFTON 1683-1757 (gs of King CHARLES II), as well gt gd of 1^st Duke of BEAUFORT 1629-1700, etc etc) and Rosemary Evelyn d of Maj Horace John FLOWER DSO MC 1883-1919 scion of that gentry family f/o Furze Down Park and as her 1^st h Richenda Louise BARCLAY 1889-1956 (Mrs John Gunning) scion of that gentry family of Higham. He m 1984 Diana Elizabeth GRIFFITH , and had a son and a dau.

Obit in the Times of 27 March 2025:

E X T R A C T

Sir Julian Seymour obituary: assistant to Margaret Thatcher

Sleek, problem-solving former advertising executive and right-hand man to the former prime minister in her retirement

… Born in Broxbourne, Essex, in 1945, the son of a colonel who worked in the City, he never went to university but had made a fortune in advertising, working successively for Collett Dickenson Pearce, the theatre producer Robert Fox, and Lowe Howard Spink and Bell before setting up Chime Communications with Bell in 1989. Calm, clever and pragmatic, he was a consummate dealmaker and, according to a former colleague, the “go-to person if you had a problem”…

… He and his South African wife, Diana, the mother of his son (Archie, who manages a group of restaurants) and daughter (Rosie, a primary school teacher), would invite [Baroness Thatcher] to their home in Battersea or their country house on Sandwich Bay in Kent…

… Seymour was one of the few people allowed to visit [Baroness Thatcher] as she spent her last days in the Ritz hotel in Piccadilly, again courtesy of the Barclays. After she died on April 8, 2013, aged 87, it was he who signed her death certificate, which described her as a “stateswoman (retired)”. He was an executor of her will and nine months after her death both he and Worthington received knighthoods…

Sir Julian Seymour, director of Margaret Thatcher’s private office, was born on March 19, 1945. He died on March 23, 2025, aged 80

https://www.thetimes.com/article/4a44b61f-79ad-43fd-bd30-0415f01a18a6

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph of 1 April 2025: SEYMOUR Sir Julian Seymour CBE died after a short illness on 23rd March aged 80. Much loved husband, father and grandfather who will be greatly missed. Funeral on Wednesday 16th April at 11.30 a.m. at St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge.