Michael Seymour R.N.
Michael Seymour R.N.
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Michael Seymour R.N. | Explanation |
Third son of Rear-Admiral Sir Michael Seymour, first baronet (1768-1834) |
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Date (from) | (Date to) | Personal |
3 December 1802 | | Born |
1827 | 1859 | Registrar and Secretary of the Order of the Bath |
22 June 1829 | | Married his first cousin Dora (or Dorothea; 1807?1875) , daughter of Sir William Knighton |
5 July 1855 | | K.C.B. (Knight Commander of the Bath) |
20 May 1859 | | G.C.B. (Knight Grand Cross of the Bath) |
9 August 1859 | 12 February 1863 | M.P. (Liberal) for Devonport |
23 February 1887 | | Died (Cadlington House, near Horndean, Hampshire) |
Obituary in the Times newspaper |
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Date | Rank |
5 November 1813 | Entered Navy |
12 September 1822 | Lieutenant |
6 December 1824 | Commander |
5 August 1826 | Captain |
27 May 1854 | Rear-Admiral |
1 November 1860 | Vice-Admiral |
5 March 1864 | Admiral |
1870 | Retired Admiral |
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Date from | Date to | Service |
8 August 1825 | | Commander in Cameleon, Plymouth |
9 January 1827 | | Captain in Menai, South America |
12 September 1827 | 1829 | Captain in Volage, South America |
14 June 1833 | 19 May 1835 | Captain in Challenger (1826, sixth rate), South America, until wrecked at Mocquilla Point, near Leubu, on the coast of Chile by an abnormal and previously unknown reversal of the current (all rescued after spending seven weeks on land) |
7 April 1841 | September 1841 | Captain in Britannia, flagship of Vice-Admiral John Acworth Ommanney, Mediterranean |
September 1841 | 6 January 1842 | Captain in Powerful (until paying off at Portsmouth), Mediterranean |
16 January 1845 | 1848 | Captain in Vindictive, flagship of Vice-Admiral Francis William Austen, North America and West Indies |
1849 | | Made a prolonged tour in France, visiting the dockyards, arsenals, and engineering works, on which he reported to the Admiralty |
3 December 1850 | | Captain in Monarch, guard ship of Ordinary, Sheerness |
8 September 1851 | 1854 | Commodore-superintendent, Devonport dockyard (flag in Royal William) |
1854 | | Captain of the Fleet to Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Napier, in the Baltic during the Russian War |
19 February 1855 | | Second in command in the Baltic to Rear-Admiral Sir Richard Saunders Dundas during the Russian War (flag in Exmouth) |
18 February 1856 | 25 January 1859 | Commander-in-chief, East Indies and China (including first part of 2nd Anglo-Chinese War) (flag in Calcutta) |
1 March 1863 | 1 March 1866 | Commander-in-chief, Portsmouth (flag in Victory) |