A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Brown, Seymour Yorke
BROWN. (Lieutenant, 1836.)
Seymour Yorke Brown died 3 Feb. 1846. He was son of Rear-Admiral Thos. Brown.
This officer passed his examination in 1829; obtained his commission 15 Feb. 1836; became Additional-Lieutenant of the Caledonia 120, flag-ship in the Mediterranean of Sir Josias Rowley, 22 Aug. following, and of the Princess Charlotte 104, bearing the flag of Sir Robt. Stopford on the same station, 16 Aug. 1837; was employed for a few months at the commencement of 1839 in the Barham 50, Capt. Armar Lowry Corry, lying at Sheerness; joined, 2 April, 1840, the Vanguard 80, Capt. Sir David Dunn, in the Mediterranean; removed to the Asia 84, Capt. Wm. Fisher, lying at Sheerness, 1 Dec. ensuing; and, from 9 Nov. 1841, until 1845, served in the East Indies as First of the Serpent 16, Capt. Wm. Nevill.
He married, 31 Aug. 1841, Barbara Whalley Smythe, second daughter of Sir Jas. W. S. Gardiner, Bart., of Roche Court, co. Hants, and niece of Sir Oswald Mosley, Bart., of Ancoats, co. Lancaster, by whom he has left issue. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.