AdmiralFrederick Beauchamp Paget Seymour, 1st Baron Alcester, GCB (12 April 1821 – 30 March 1895) was a British naval commander. He was commander of the Channel Squadron between 1874 and 1877 and Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet between 1880 and 1883.
From 1868 to 1870 Seymour served as private secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty, Hugh Childers, and was promoted to Rear-Admiral. From 1870 to 1872 he commanded the flying squadron. In 1872, he became Fourth Naval Lord for two years, and then commander of the Channel Squadron. He became a vice-admiral on 31 December 1876, and was appointed KCB in June 1877, and was promoted to GCB on 24 May 1881.
The dispersal of the International Fleet on 5 December 1880 convened for enforcing the Treaty of Berlin. The Graphic 1880
Lord Alcester never married. He died 30 March 1895, aged 73, when his peerage became extinct.[2][5]
In his will he left the balance of his estate to Agnes Sinclair for her lifetime. On her death, two fifths were left to Frederick Charles Horace Sinclair and one fifth each to Hugh Francis Paget Sinclair, Claude Sinclair and Evelyn Sinclair.[6]
Coat of arms of Beauchamp Seymour, 1st Baron Alcester
Crest
Out of a ducal coronet Or a phoenix in flames Proper.
Escutcheon
Quarterly, 1st & 4th Or on a pile Gules between six fleur-de-lis Azure three lions passant guardant in pale Or, 2nd & 3rd Gules two wings conjoined in lure Or.
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.