A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Seymour, George Henry
SEYMOUR. (Captain, 1844.)
George Henry Seymour, born in 1818, is second son of Rear-Admiral Sir Geo. Fras. Seymour, Kt., C.B., G.C.H.
This officer entered the Navy 4 Feb. 1831; passed his examination in 1837; obtained his first commission 27 June, 1838; and after having served on the North America and West India station, as Additional-Lieutenant and Lieutenant, in the Cornwallis 72, flag-ship of Sir Thos. Harvey, Inconstant 36, Capt. Dan. Pring, Winchester 50, bearing the flag also of Sir T. Harvey, Pilot 16, Capt. Geo. Ramsay, and Crocodile 26, Capt. Alex. Milne, was promoted to the rank of Commander in compliment to the King of Prussia, 28 Jan. 1842. He commanded the Wanderer 16, in the East Indies, from 8 March, 1842, until posted, 24 May, 1844; and the Carysfort 26, in the Pacific, from 12 Dec. 1845 until paid off in the spring of 1848. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
SEYMOUR. (Captain, 1844.)
George Henry Seymour commanded the Wanderer in the Yang-tse-Kiang at the close of the operations in China. While in the same vessel he obtained the public thanks of the Commander-in-Chief for his conduct in the boats, under Capt Hon. Geo. Fowler Hastings of the Harlequin 16, in an attack made, in company with those of the E.I.Co.’s steamer Diana, on the piratical towns of Murdoo and Quallo Batto, in the island of Sumatra. He also received a letter of thanks from the Governor of the British Settlements in the Straits of Malacca, as well as the thanks of the Admiralty, for his exertions in proceeding 60 miles up the river Siac, in Sumatra, and recovering from the Rajah several convicts who had effected their escape from Singapore.