Sir Francis Seymour, 1st Baronet, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Sir Francis Seymour, 1st Baronet

British Army general

Date of Birth: 02-Aug-1813

Date of Death: 10-Jul-1890

Profession: military personnel

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Sir Francis Seymour, 1st Baronet

  • General Sir Francis Seymour, 1st Baronet, (2 August 1813, in Lisburn, County Down – 10 July 1890, in Kensington Palace, London) was a British Army officer and courtier. Seymour was the eldest son of Henry Augustus Seymour (1771–1847) and his wife, Margaret (died 1867).
  • In 1834, he was commissioned as an ensign in the 19th Regiment of Foot and promoted to lieutenant in 1837.
  • At the request of Leopold I of Belgium, Seymour accompanied Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha on the latter's visit to Italy in the winter of 1838–1839.
  • Upon Albert's marriage to Queen Victoria in 1840, Seymour became his Groom-in-Waiting, an office he continued as such after Albert's death in 1861, to Victoria until 1876, when he became an Extra Groom-in-Waiting. In 1840, Seymour was promoted to captain and exchanged to the Scots Fusilier Guards in 1842.
  • In 1854, he served with the Guards in the Crimean War and was present at the battles of Alma, Balaclava and Inkerman.
  • He was wounded at Inkerman and also later at the Siege of Sevastopol.
  • In 1854, he was brevetted colonel and appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1857, having also received the Légion d'honneur (fourth class) and the Medjidie (fourth class). Promoted to major in 1858, lieutenant-colonel in 1863 and major-general in 1864, Seymour was made a baronet in 1869 and went on to command the troops in Malta from 1872 to 1874.
  • He was promoted to lieutenant-general in 1873, colonel of the 11th (North Devonshire) Regiment of Foot in 1874, Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1875 and general in 1877.
  • He was also appointed Master of the Ceremonies in 1876 and sometime appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Saxe-Ernestine House Order.
  • He retired in 1881 after being promoted to a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath that year. On 25 August 1869, Seymour had married Agnes Austin, the eldest daughter of Rev.
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  • Wickham of Horsington, Somerset and they had three daughters and one son, Albert Victor Francis Seymour, who was born when Seymour was 74 years old and later served as a Page of Honour to Queen Victoria.
  • Seymour died at Kensington Palace in 1890 and his baronetcy was inherited by his ten-year-old son.

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