Admiral Frederick Beauchamp Paget Seymour, 1st Baron Alcester, 1821-1895, Commander-in-Chief of Mediterranean Fleet, commanded bombardment of Alexandria amid Ahmed ‘Urabi's nationalist uprising

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Original illustration from the history of the war in the Soudan circa 1886. Info from wiki: Admiral Frederick Beauchamp Paget Seymour, 1st Baron Alcester, GCB (12 April 1821 – 30 March 1895) was a British naval commander. He was Commander-in-Chief of the Channel Fleet between 1874 and 1877 and of the Mediterranean Fleet between 1880 and 1883. He was created Baron Alcester (pronounced "Allster"), of Alcester in the County of Warwick, in 1882[3] 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 and a Sword of Honour

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