Poster (believed to be for 1895 UK General election) of Tankerville Chamberlayne (left) and Barrington Simeon

Sir John Stephen Barrington Simeon, 4th Baronet DL (31 August 1850 – 1909) was one of the two Members of Parliament[lower-alpha 1] for Southampton at the end of the 19th century and the start of the 20th century.

He was born at Swainston Manor[lower-alpha 2] in West Wight on 31 August 1850 and succeeded his father, the 3rd baronet, in 1870.[1][2] He served as Ensign in the Rifle Brigade until he married Isabella Mary, daughter of the Hon Ralph Heanage Dutton, in 1872. The marriage was childless.[1] In 1880 he became private secretary to the Rt Hon John Bright, MP, and entered parliament himself in 1895 as a Liberal Unionist. Shortly after his election he commissioned a private railway station[3] at Watchingwell, some four miles (6 km) west of Newport.[4] On 5 December 1903 he was appointed Honorary Colonel of the Southampton-based 1st Hampshire Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers).[1][5]

Re-elected in 1900, Simeon left the House of Commons in 1906 and died three years later. He was succeeded as 5th baronet by his brother, Edmund Charles (1855–1915).[1]

Coat of arms of Sir John Simeon, 4th Baronet
Crest
A fox passant-reguardant Proper in the mouth a trefoil slipped Vert.
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.
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[6]

Notes

  1. ↑ Some larger cities returned two members elected on a single ballot.
  2. ↑ A country estate totalling 8,800 acres.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 'Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 100th Edn, London, 1953.
  2. ↑ Who was Who,1897-1915, Vol 1, London, A&C Black, 1987 ISBN 978-0-7136-2670-4
  3. ↑ Ordnance Survey Grid reference SZ448884
  4. ↑ Pomeroy, C,A "Isle of Wight Railways, Then and Now": Oxford,Past & Present Publishing, 1993, ISBN 0-947971-62-9
  5. ↑ Army List.
  6. ↑ Burke's Peerage. 1949.


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