A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Seton, James Grant
SETON. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 8; h-p., 30.)
James Grant Seton was born 7 Nov. 1795.
This officer entered the Navy, 24 March, 1809, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Audacious 74, Capt. Donald Campbell; and from 26 Nov. 1811 until July, 1811, was employed in the Warrior 74, Capts. Hon. Geo. Byng (the late Viscount Torrington) and John Tremayne Rodd. In the former ship he was engaged as Midshipman in the attack upon Flushing, and was for some time stationed in the river Tagus, where he commanded a boat in co-operation with the army under Lord Wellington. During the term of his servitude in the Warrior, the whole of which he passed in the capacity of signal-officer, he assisted at the blockade of various ports in the Channel, North Sea, and Baltic, escorted the Prince of Orange, and Lord Clancarty, the British Ambassador, to Holland in Nov. 1813, was much employed in affording protection to trade, and visited the West Indies. On 10 Sept. 1815, two months after he had been received on promotion on board the Shark receiving-ship at Port Royal, Capt. Alex. Campbell, he was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Forester 16, Capt. Wm. Hendry; in which vessel and in the Emulous 16, Capt. Chas. Jackson, he continued in the West Indies until June, 1816. He has since been on half-pay. He was confirmed in the rank of Lieutenant by a commission bearing date 18 May, 1815.