Admiral Frederick Beauchamp Paget Seymour, 1st Baron Alcester, was a Royal Navy officer. He was commander of the Channel Squadron between 1874 and 1877 and Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Flee
Lord Alcester in the 1880s
The dispersal of the International Fleet on 5 December 1880 convened for enforcing the Treaty of Berlin. The Graphic 1880
Bombardment of Alexandria
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The Bombardment of Alexandria in Egypt by the British Mediterranean Fleet took place on 11–13 July 1882. Admiral Beauchamp Seymour was in command of a fleet of fifteen Royal Navy ironclad ships which
Beauchamp Seymour, 1st Baron Alcester
…in May 1882. He was created Baron Alcester (pronounced "Allster"), of Alcester in the County of Warwick, on 24 November 1882 for his command of the bombardment of Alexandria and in the subsequent operations on the coast of Egypt. He was also honoured with a parliamentary grant of £25,000, the Freedom of the City of London…
Alexandria in ruins after the bombardment
British ships shelling Alexandria by a French artist.
A view of the bombardment by an artist in Cairo.
Photo in Alexandria after the bombardment and fire of 11–13 July 1882.