Information About ®Michael Seymour |
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Michael Seymour entered the Royal Navy in 1813 . He made Lieutenant in 1822, Commander in 1824 and was posted Captain in 1826. From 1833 to 1835 he was captain of the Survey Ship HMS Challenger , and was wrecked in her off the coast of Chile . From 1851 to 1854 he was Commodore Superintendent of Devonport Dockyard . In 1854 he served under Sir Charles Napier in the Baltic during the Crimean War , in the capacity of Captain Of The Fleet . He was promoted to Rear-Admiral that same year and, when the Baltic campaign was resumed in 1855 under Admiral the Hon. Richard Saunders Dundas , Seymour was second in command, flying his flag in HMS ''Exmouth''. He was made KCB at the end of 1855. On 19 February 1856 he was appointed commander-in-chief of the East Indies station, which included the coast of China . Flying his flag in HMS ''Calcutta'', he conducted the operations arising out of the affair of the lorcha ''Arrow'' ( Second Opium War ); he destroyed the Chinese fleet in June 1857 , took Canton in December, and in 1858 he captured the forts on the Pei Ho (Hai River), compelling the Chinese government to consent to the Treaties Of Tianjin . He was made GCB in 1859. He sat as Member Of Parliament for Devonport from 1859 to 1863 . In 1864 he was promoted to the rank of Admiral and was Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth , till 1866. He retired in 1870. |
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