A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Seymour, Matthew Cassan
SEYMOUR. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 9; h-p., 31.)
Matthew Cassan Seymour is brother of Lieut. John Crossley Seymour, R.N.
This officer entered the. Navy, 2 June, 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Amethyst of 42 guns and 261 men, commanded by the late Sir Michael Seymour, with whom, after having contributed, in the capacity of Midshipman, to the capture of the frigates alluded to in our memoir of his brother and taken part in the operations connected with the Walcheren expedition, he removed, in Oct. 1809 to the Niemen 38, and in May, 1812, as Master’s Mate, to the Hannibal 74. In the latter ship he was present, in March, 1814, at the capture, off Cherbourg, of the French 40-gun frigate La Sultane. On his return from a voyage to the West Indies he joined at Plymouth, towards the close of 1814, the Salvador del Mundo, flag-ship of Vice-Admiral Wm. Domett, and Impregnable 98, Capt. Nash. From 25 Feb. until 3 March, 1815, he acted as Lieutenant in the Scamander 36, Capt. Gilbert Heathcote, lying at the same port; and in the following Nov., at which period he had been again for some months serving as Master’s Mate in the Impregnable, bearing the flag of Sir Josias Rowley in the Mediterranesm, he was presented with a commission dated 8 of the preceding March. He has since been on half-pay.