Richard Simeon Explained

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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Baronets: S, part 2. https://web.archive.org/web/20080501225006/http://www.leighrayment.com/baronetage/baronetsS2.htm. 1 May 2008. Leigh Rayment's baronetage pages. usurped. 25 July 2010.
  2. Web site: Lundy . Darryl . Sir John Simeon, 1st Bt. . The Peerage . 27 May 2013.
  3. Book: Craig , F. W. S. . F. W. S. Craig

    . F. W. S. Craig . British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 . 1977 . 2nd . 1989 . Parliamentary Research Services . Chichester . 0-900178-26-4 . 402.

  4. Book: Blain , Rev. Michael . The Canterbury Association (1848–1852): A Study of Its Members' Connections . 2007 . Project Canterbury . Christchurch . 26 May 2013 . 75.
  5. Book: Burke's Peerage . 1949.