A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Simeon, Charles
SIMEON. (Captain, 1827.)
Charles Simeon is third and youngest son of the late Sir John Simeon, Bart., M.P., and Senior Master of the Court of Chancery, by Rebecca, eldest daughter of John Cornwall, Esq., of Hendon House, Middlesex; brother of the present Sir Rich. Godin Simeon, Bart.; and brother-in-law of Colonel Webber Smith, R.A., and of the late Sir Fred. Fras. Baker, Bart., F.R.S., F.S.A., of Loventor, co. Devon.
This officer entered the Navy, 28 Sept. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Repulse 74, Capts. Hon. Arthur Kaye Legge and John Halliday; under the former of whom he passed the Dardanells in Feb. 1807, and accompanied the expedition of 1809 to the Walcheren. In May, 1810, he removed as Midshipman (a rating he had attained in Aug. 1807) to the Topaze 38, Capt. Henry Hope, attached to the force in the Mediterranean; whence, towards the close of 1811, he returned to England in the Montagu 74, Capt. J. Halliday. In March, 1812 after his name had been borne for three months on the books of the Egmont and Namur 74’s, Thisbe 28, and Caledonia 120, he was received on board the Curaçoa 36, Capt. John Tower, again in the Mediterranean. On 2 June, 1812, he was made Lieutenant into the Sparrowhawk sloop; hut before he could join that vessel he had the misfortune, while detached in the Curaçoa’s boats, to fall, 30 July, into the hands of the enemy, by whom he was detained a prisoner until the end of the war. He subsequently, from June until Sept. 1814, served at Portsmouth in the Egmont 74, Capt. Joseph Bingham; and on 13 June, 1815, he was promoted to the rank of Commander. His next appointments were, 23 Oct. and 2 Nov. 1818, to the Mutine 16 and Arab 18; in the latter of which vessels he served for about three years on the Cork station. On the occasion of his advancement to Post-rank, 10 March, 1827, he obtained command of the Niemen 28, on the Halifax station. In 1847 he accepted the Retirement.
Capt. Simeon married, 5 July, 1821, Frances, second daughter of Thos. Woore, Esq., of Inch House, co. Donegal, by whom he has issue.