Colonial Despatches

Sir George Francis Seymour, naval officer, was born on 17 September 1787. He served with distinction in several battles during the Napoleonic wars, including Trafalgar, and was later severely wounded by grapeshot at Santo Domingo.1

After the wars, Seymour served as sergeant-at-arms in the House of Lords and later was master of robes to William IV. In 1841 he was appointed a lord of the Admiralty and commander of the Royal Navy's pacific station until 1848. From 1851 to November 1853 Seymour was commander in chief of the North America and West Indies station. He was eventually promoted to admiral of the fleet in 1866. He died on 29 January 1870.2

• 1. J. K. Laughton and Andrew Lambert, Seymour, Sir George Francis, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
• 2. Ibid.