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Alcester, Baron (UK, 1882 - 1885)

Creation: let.pat. 24 Nov 1882

Extinct: 30 Mar 1895

Family name: Seymour

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Arms:

Quarterly:  1st and 4th, Or on a Pile Gules between six Fleur-de-lis Azure three Lions passant guardant in pale Or (Augmentation granted to Queen Jane Seymour);  2nd and 3rd, Gules two Wings conjoined in lure Or (Seymour)

Crest:

Out of a Ducal Coronet Or a Phoenix in flames proper

Supporters:

Dexter: A Sailor;  Sinister: A Private of the Royal Marines, both habited, each holding in the exterior hand a Musket ,and each standing on an Armstrong Gun, all proper

Motto:

 Foy pour devoir

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Frederick Beauchamp Paget [Seymour], 1st Baron Alcester, GCB

2nd but 1st surv. son and heir of Col Sir Horace Beauchamp Seymour KCH MP (by his first wife Elizabeth Malet Palk, dau. of Sir Lawrence Palk, 2nd Bt), 3rd son of Admiral Lord Hugh Seymour-Conway RN (by his wife Lady Anne Horatia Waldegrave, 3rd dau. and cohrss. by his second wife of James [Waldegrave], 2nd Earl Waldegrave), 5th son of Francis [Seymour-Conway], 1st Marquess of Hertford

born

12 Apr 1821

died

30 Mar 1895

created

24 Nov 1882 Baron Alcester, of Alcester in the County of Warwick

note

entered Royal Navy 1834; Cmdr 1847, Capt 1854, Rear Admiral 1870, Vice Admiral 1876 and Admiral 1882; served in the Burmese War 1852-53 and in the White Sea 1854; took the Meteor floating battery to the Crimea and back to Portsmouth 1855-56; commanded a Naval Brigade in New Zealand during the Maori War 1860-61; CB 1861; Naval ADC to Queen Victoria 1866; Junior Lord of the Admiralty 1872-74 and 1883-85; Commander, Channel Fleet 1874-77; KCB 1877; Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet 1880-83; GCB 1881; in command at bombardment of Alexandria 1882; in 1882 he received the Freedom of the City of London and £25,000 by vote of Parliament

On the death of the 1st Baron Alcester the Barony of Alcester became extinct.

 First written 8 Jul 2006

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