Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An haifi ɗan Reverend Richard Seymour da Frances Seymour (née Smith), Seymour ya yi karatu a Kwalejin Radley da Eastman's Royal Naval Academy, Southsea kuma ya shiga Royal Navy a Portsmouth a 1852. An nada shi zuwa ga corvette kuma, bayan da aka ci gaba da zama mai kula da shi, sai aka canja shi zuwa jirgin ruwa na jirgin ruwa a shekara ta 1853. Ya yi aiki a cikin HMS "Terrible" a cikin Bahar Maliya a duk lokacin Yakin Crimea. An nada shi zuwa na biyu, babban jirgin ruwan kawunsa Sir Michael Seymour, Babban Kwamandan, Tashar China a shekarar 1857 kuma ya shiga cikin nutsewar yakin basasa a watan Yunin 1857, yakin Canton
a watan Disamba na 1857 da yakin Taku Forts a watan Mayu na 1858 a lokacin yakin Opium na biyu.