Michael Seymour, 1st Baronet

Michael Seymour

Sir Michael Seymour, 1st Baronet KCB (born November 8, 1768 in Palace, County Limerick , † July 9, 1834 in Rio de Janeiro ), from the Irish branch of the Seymours , was a British naval officer.

Life

Michael Seymour stood out especially in the last decade of the 18th century and lost an arm as a lieutenant on board the HMS Marlborough in Howe's victory over the French on June 1, 1794 ( see Battle of the 13th Prairial ).

Between 1796 and 1810 he was captain of the sloop HMS Spitfire and then the frigate HMS Amethyst . He raised a considerable number of French prizes in the Canal . In 1832 he was appointed Rear Admiral of the Blue and died two years later as commandant of the South American Station . He was buried in the English cemetery in Rio de Janeiro . A plaque is in St Ann's Church in Portsmouth .

Michael Seymour was born in 1809 by George III. the Baronet in the County of Devon, charged of Highmount in the County of Cork and Friery Park and the 1815 Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath appointed.

His eldest son John Hobart Culme-Seymour (1800-1880), who succeeded him in the baronet, became a clergyman. His second son Michael Seymour (1802-1887) accompanied his father to the Navy and became an admiral. Another son, Richard Seymour, also became a clergyman. The only child of the Reverend John Hobart Culme-Seymour, Michael Culme-Seymour (1836-1920), the 3rd Baronet, was again a naval officer and admiral. His son Michael , the 4th baronet, also became an admiral. Richard Seymour's son was Admiral of the Fleet Sir Edward Hobart Seymour (1840-1929), Commander in Chief of the British Far East Fleet.

literature

• Seymour, Michael. In: William Richard O'Byrne: A Naval Biographical Dictionary. Murray, London 1849, p. 1054 ( wikisource ).
• JK Laughton, Andrew Lambert: Seymour, Sir Michael, first baronet. In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004

Web links

• Illustration of the plaque in St Ann's Church in Portsmouth including a copy of the inscription

predecessor	title	successor
New title created	Baronet, of High Mount and Friery Park 1809-1834	John Seymour