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Admiral Sir Michael Seymour, GCB (3 December 1802 – 23 February 1887), was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth. ==Naval career== Born the third son of Admiral Sir Michael Seymour, 1st Baronet,〔(Sir Michael Seymour at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography )〕 Michael Seymour entered the Royal Navy in 1813.〔 He was made Lieutenant in 1822, Commander in 1824 and was posted Captain in 1826.〔 From 1833 to 1835 he was captain of the survey ship HMS ''Challenger'', and was wrecked in her off the coast of Chile.〔 In 1841 he was given command of HMS ''Britannia'' and then of HMS ''Powerful''.〔 In 1845 he took over HMS ''Vindictive''.〔 From 1851 to 1854 he was Commodore Superintendent of Devonport Dockyard.〔 In 1854 he served under Sir Charles Napier in the Baltic during the Crimean War.〔 He was promoted to Rear-Admiral that same year and, when the Baltic campaign was resumed in 1855 under Admiral the Hon. Richard Dundas, Seymour was second in command.〔 On 19 February 1856 he was appointed commander-in-chief of the East Indies and China Station.〔 Flying his flag in HMS ''Calcutta'',〔 he conducted operations arising from the attack on the British Coaster ''Arrow'',〔 helped destroy the Chinese fleet in June 1857,〔 took Canton in December,〔 and in 1858 he captured the forts on the Baihe (Hai River),〔 compelling the Chinese government to consent to the Treaty of Tientsin.〔 He was made GCB in 1859.〔 He sat as a Liberal Member of Parliament for Devonport from 1859 to 1863.〔 In 1863 he was made Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth, a post he held until 1866.〔 He retired in 1870.〔 Seymour Road on Hong Kong Island was named after him. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michael Seymour (Royal Navy officer, born 1802)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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