Nickname(s) The Ocean Swell Name Beauchamp 1st Allegiance United Kingdom Parents Horace Seymour | Years of service 1834–1885 Awards Order of the Bath Rank Admiral Service/branch Royal Navy | |
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Born 12 April 1821
London, England ( 1821-04-12 ) Commands held HMS Brisk (1853)
HMS Meteor (1855-56)
Naval Brigade, New Zealand (1860-61)
Junior Naval Lord (1872-74)
Channel Fleet (1874-77)
Mediterranean Fleet (1880-83)
Second Sea Lord (1883-85) Battles/wars Crimean War (1856)
Maori War (1860-1861)
Anglo-Egyptian War (1882) Died March 30, 1895, London, United Kingdom Battles and wars Crimean War, New Zealand Wars, Anglo-Egyptian War Similar People Tewfik Pasha, Garnet Wolseley - 1st Visco, Ahmed ‘Urabi | ||
Admiral Frederick Beauchamp Paget Seymour, 1st Baron Alcester, GCB (12 April 1821 – 30 March 1895) was a British naval commander. He was Commander-in-Chief of the Channel Fleet between 1874 and 1877 and of the Mediterranean Fleet between 1880 and 1883.
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Background
Seymour was the son of Colonel Sir Horace Seymour and a cousin of the 5th Marquess of Hertford. He was a great-grandson of the 1st Marquess of Hertford.
Naval career
Seymour entered the Royal Navy in 1834, and served in the Mediterranean and the Pacific, and was for three years aide-de-camp to his uncle Sir George Seymour, and was promoted to commander in 1847. He also served in Burma. He was the Commander-in-Chief of the Australia Station from 10 March 1860 and 21 July 1862 as Commodore second class with his pennant aboard Pelorus. He commanded the Naval Brigade in New Zealand during the New Zealand Wars of 1860–61, and was made a Commander of the Bath for this.
In 1872, he became a Fourth Naval Lord for two years, and then commander the Channel Fleet. He became a vice-admiral on 31 December 1876, and was appointed KCB in June 1877, and was promoted to GCB on 24 May 1881. From 1880 to 1883 he was Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet and from 1883 to 1885 he was Second Naval Lord. He became an admiral in May 1882.
He was created Baron Alcester (pronounced "Allster"), of Alcester in the County of Warwick, in 1882 for his command of the bombardment of Alexandria and in the subsequent operations on the coast of Egypt. He was also honoured with a parliamentary grant of £25,000, the Freedom of the City of London and a Sword of Honour.
Personal life
Lord Alcester never married. He died 30 March 1895, aged 73, when his peerage became extinct.
In his will he left the balance of his estate to Agnes Sinclair for her lifetime. On her death, two fifths were left to Frederick Charles Horace Sinclair and one fifth each to Hugh Francis Paget Sinclair, Claude Sinclair and Evelyn Sinclair.