Lord Nicolas Ivo William John Seymour-Stewart (born 21 August 1957) is a British journalist and writer, who is currently Editor of the Salisbury Review.
Early life and background
He is the younger son of the politician Lord Nicholas Stewart and his wife Hon. Priscilla Buchan, daughter of John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir and Priscilla Jean Fortescue Thomson, Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie.
He was educated at Eton College and St Peter's College, Oxford, where he read Modern Foreign Languages.
He is the younger brother of Alexander Seymour-Stewart, 20th Duke of Somerset, and the nephew of William Stewart, 17th Duke of Somerset.
Writing and journalism
After leaving Oxford in 1978, He managed the over 3,000 acres of land and the Tudor manor house in Dorset his father, a younger son, had bought, as his brother, now the Duke, served in the Army.
He lived in Romania from 1996 to 2004. He has contributed articles and photographs to the Daily Telegraph, Ecologist, Art Newspaper and The Times about Romanian history and current affairs, with particular coverage of Transylvania. He now divides his time between England and Romania and has continued to be a prominent writer on Romanian affairs to this day. He published, in 2010, Stories from Romania.
Stewart has also been Editor of the Salisbury Review since 2014.
Personal life
In 1981, he married Countess Mária Irén Teleki de Szék, a granddaughter of the Hungarian Prime Minister Count Pál Teleki, with whom he had three children:
- James William Nicholas Charles Seymour-Stewart (born 1 November 1982), who married in 2007 Alexandra Matthew, daughter of Thomas Matthew and Princess Olga Romanoff, the heir to the Dukedom of Somerset, he lives in Galloway House, one of the Scottish properties of the Dukes of Somerset
- Maria Eugenia Beatrice Priscilla Seymour-Stewart (born 28 July 1984), who married in 2010 the elder son and heir of the Lord De La Warr, Lord Buckhurst
- Ivo Caspar William Paul Seymour-Stewart (born 19 September 1989), who married in 2014 Sarah Montagu, a great-niece of Tyler Montagu, 12th Duke of Manchester
In 2018, when his brother inherited the Dukedom of Somerset, he was granted the right to use the style of the younger son of a Duke.
In January 2020, Stewart announced that he would run for UKIP in the European Parliament elections.
He lives in Sandford Orcar Manor, a Tudor manor house, which was bought by his father, in Dorset and manages an estate of over 3,000 acres, which he was given on a permanent basis after his elder brother became the Duke of Somerset.
