Sir Edward Hobart Seymour (April 30, 1840 - March 2, 1929) was a British Admiral of the Fleet.
He was the grandson of Rear-Admiral Sir Michael Seymour and nephew of Admiral Sir Michael Seymour. He was educated at Radley College and Eastman's Naval Academy , Southsea.
He served in the Black Sea until the evacuation of Crimea in 1856. After the end of the Crimean War, still a midshipman, he was appointed to the HMS Calcutta , flagship of his uncle Sir Michael Seymour, on the China station. He took part in the capture of Canton (December 1857). In HMS Chesapeake Seymour took part in the attack on the Taku forts in September 1860.
In December 1897 Seymour was appointed commander-in-chief on the China station. Service there was peaceful until the Boxer Rebellion in 1902. Seymour led the naval brigade in the relief of Peking.
"Seymour was a man of a singularly broad and humane outlook...He was a widely read and good linguist. He described his services with great modesty and a total lack of self-consciousness in My Naval Career and Travels (1911). He was unmarried."
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