 He particularly attacked Lord Somers, the Chancellor, and managed the several attempts made to remove him from office.In 1699, the death of his third son, Popham Seymour-Conway, from the effects of a wound incurred in a duel with Captain George Kirk, prompted him to make an attack upon the standing army.He seems to have suffered from diabetes in later life, an exchange of wit between Seymour and his physician, Dr. Ratcliffe, being recorded in "Joe Miller's Jests".