Michael Seymour (Royal Navy officer, born 1802)
Admiral Sir Michael Seymour, GCB was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth.
Portrait of Admiral Seymour
1846 July 30, to New York from Raritan River
Approaching La Guaira, Venezuela
Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth
The Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth, was a senior commander of the Royal Navy for hundreds of years. The commanders-in-chief were based at premises in High Street, Portsmouth from the 1790s until the end of Sir Thomas Williams's tenure, his successor, Sir Philip Durham, being the first to move into Admiralty House at the Royal Navy Dockyard, where subsequent holders of the office were based until 1969. Prior to World War I the officer holder was sometimes referred to in official dispatches as the Commander-in-Chief, Spithead.
HMS Victory, flagship of the Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth
Admiralty House, HMNB Portsmouth