# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Seymour, Michael

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​SEYMOUR. (Capt., 1826. f-p., 17; h-p., 17.)
Michael Seymour, born 3 Dec. 1802, is third son of the late Rear-Admiral Sir Michael Seymour, Bart., K.C.B., by Jane, third daughter of Capt. Jas. Hawker, R.N.; and nephew of Lieut. Rich. Seymour, R.N., First of the Amazon 38, who was killed in action with the French 40-gun frigate Belle Poule 13 March, 1806. He is brother of the present Sir John Hobart Culme Seymour, Bart., of Highmount, co. Limerick, Prebendary of Gloucester, Rector of Northchurch, Herts, and Chaplain-in-Ordinary to the Queen; of Capt. Jas. Seymour, of the 38th Regt., who died at Cawnpoor in 1827; of Commander Edw. Seymour, R.N. (1834), who died 13 June, 1837, at Horndean, in the 33rd year of his age; and of Wm. Hobart Seymour, Esq., of the 72nd Regt. One of his sisters, Mary Dora, was married, in 1830, to Commander O. G. S. Gunning, R.N.; another, Caroline, in 1841, to Capt. Geo. Carr, only son of the late Bishop of Worcester; and a third, Elizabeth, in 1839, to Capt. Geo. Howard Vyse, of the 2nd Life Guards.
This officer entered the Navy, 5 Nov. 1813, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Hannibal 74, in which ship, commanded by his father, he served for 10 months, principally in the Channel, and assisted at the capture, in March, 1814, of La Sultane French frigate of 44 guns. From 8 March, 1816, until 25 Oct. 1818, he studied at the Royal Naval College., He then joined in succession, on the Mediterranean and Home stations, the Rochfort 80, flag-ship of Sir Thos. Fras. Fremantle, Ganymede 26, Capt. Hon. Robt. Cavendish Spencer, a second time the Rochfort and again the Ganymede, and the Glasgow 50, Camelion 10, Seringapatam 46, Révolutionnaire 46, and Apolla yacht, Capts. Hon. Anthony Maitland, Wm. Jas. Mingaye, Sam. Warren, Hon. Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew, and Hon. Sir Chas. Paget. In the five ships last mentioned he held the rating of Midshipman. He obtained his first commission 12 Sept. 1822; became attached, 1 July, 1823, to the Sybille 48, Capt. Sam. John Pechell, employed in the West Indies and Mediterranean; attained the rank of Commander 6 Dec. 1824; was appointed in that capacity, 8 Aug. 1825, to the Camelion 10, on the Plymouth station; and was advanced, 5 Aug. 1826, to Post-rank. His subsequent appointments were – 7 Jan. and 12 Sept. 1827, to the Menai 26 and Volage 28, both on the South American station, whence he returned early in 1829 – 14 June, 1833, to the Challenger 28, in which ship he was wrecked on the coast of Chili 19 May, 1835 – 7 April, 1841, to the Britannia 120, bearing the flag of Sir John Acworth Ommanney in the Mediterranean – 22 Sept. 1841, to the Powerful 84, paid off at Portsmouth at the commencement of 1842 – and, 16 Jan. 1845, to the Vindictive 50, fitting for the flag of Sir Fras. Wm. Austen, Commander-in-Chief in North America and the West Indies, where he remained until 1848.
Capt. Seymour has been for several years Registrar and Secretary to the Order of the Bath. He married, 22 June, 1829, his first-cousin, Dorothea, eldest daughter of the late Sir Wm. Knighton, Bart., M.D., G.C.H., Auditor and Keeper of the Privy and Council Seals of the Duchy of Cornwall, and Keeper of the Privy Purse to George IV., by whom he has issue. Agents – Case and Loudonsack.