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| Michael Culme-Seymour R.N. | Explanation | ||
| Son of Rev. Sir John Hobart Seymour, 2nd Bart (1800-1880), who took the additional surname Culme after the death of his first wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Thomas Culme, in 1841 | |||
| Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal | |
| 13 March 1836 | Born | ||
| 16 October 1866 | Married Mary Georgiana Watson, daughter of Richard Watson M.P. (1800-1852) | ||
| 1869 | Naval aide de camp to Queen Victoria | ||
| 17 September 1880 | Succeeded as third baronet | ||
| 11 October 1920 | Died (Oundle, Northamptonshire) | ||
| Obituary in the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Rank | ||
| 1850 | Entered Navy | ||
| 25 May 1857 | Lieutenant | ||
| 6 June 1859 | Commander | ||
| 16 December 1865 | Captain | ||
| 6 May 1882 | Rear-Admiral | ||
| 19 June 1888 | Vice-Admiral | ||
| 13 May 1893 | Admiral | ||
| 13 March 1901 | Retired Admiral | ||
| Date from | Date to | Service | |
| (1856) | Mate in Calcutta, commanded by William King Hall, flagship of Rear-Admiral Michael Seymour, East Indies (including 2nd Anglo-Chinese War) | ||
| 19 September 1857 | 6 June 1859 | Lieutenant in Calcutta, commanded by William King Hall, flagship of Rear-Admiral Michael Seymour, East Indies and China (including 2nd Anglo-Chinese War) (flag-lieutenant to his uncle) | |
| 20 June 1861 | 16 August 1865 | Commander in Wanderer (until paying off at Chatham), Mediterranean | |
| 1 December 1870 | Captain in Volage, Channel squadron | ||
| 1874 | 1876 | Private secretary to George Ward-Hunt, first lord of the Admiralty | |
| April 1876 | July 1877 | Captain in Monarch, Mediterranean | |
| 8 July 1877 | Captain in Temeraire, Mediterranean, and part of the squadron that Admiral Sir Geoffrey Phipps Hornby led through the Dardanelles in 1878 | ||
| 29 July 1879 | 9 May 1882 | Captain in Duke of Wellington, flagship of Alfred Phillipps Ryder, flagship of the port admiral, Portsmouth | |
| 1885 | Second-in-command, Hornby's Baltic squadron assembled during the Panjdeh crisis (precipitated by Russian encroachment into Central Asia) | ||
| 4 July 1885 | 20 September 1887 | Commander-in-chief, Pacific | |
| 3 May 1890 | 10 May 1892 | Commander-in-chief, Channel squadron | |
| 29 June 1893 | 10 November 1896 | Commander-in-chief, Mediterranean (restoring the morale of the squadron after the loss of Victoria) | |
| 3 August 1897 | 3 October 1900 | Commander-in-chief, Portsmouth | |
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