Honorific Prefix: | Sir |
Richard Simeon | |
Honorific Suffix: | 2nd Baronet |
Party: | Liberal Party |
Nationality: | English |
Parents: | Sir John Simeon, 1st Baronet (father) |
Office: | Member of Parliament for the Isle of Wight |
Predecessor: | Constituency created |
Successor: | William à Court-Holmes |
Children: | Charles Simeon John Simeon |
Birth Date: | 21 May 1784 |
Birth Name: | Richard Godin Simeon |
Sir Richard Godin Simeon, 2nd Baronet (21 May 1784 – 4 January 1854)[1] was an English Liberal Party politician.
Simeon was born in 1784, the son of Sir John Simeon, 1st Baronet and Rebecca Cornwall.[2]
Simeon was elected at the 1832 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Isle of Wight,[3] a new constituency which had been created by the Reform Act 1832. He was re-elected in 1835, and stood down from the House of Commons at the 1837 general election.
He was appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant of the Isle of Wight 1831, and in 1846. He also served as High Sheriff of Hampshire for 1845. Charles and John Simeon were his sons.[4]
Escutcheon: | Per fess Sable and Or a pale counterchanged in chief an ermine spot of the first between two trefoils slipped of the second and in base a like trefoil between two like ermine spots. |
Crest: | A fox passant-reguardant Proper in the mouth a trefoil slipped Vert. |
Supporters: | Dexter a fox reguardant Proper in the mouth a trefoil slipped Vert, sinister a lion Gules ducally crowned Or. |
Motto: | Serviendo; Nec Temere Nec Timide[5] |
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