A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Seymour, George Henry
SEYMOUR. (Captain, 1844.)
George Henry Seymour commanded the Wanderer in the Yang-tse-Kiang at the close of the operations in China. While in the same vessel he obtained the public thanks of the Commander-in-Chief for his conduct in the boats, under Capt Hon. Geo. Fowler Hastings of the Harlequin 16! in an attack made, in company with those of the E.I.Co.’s steamer Diana, on the piratical towns of Murdoo and Quallo Batto, in the island of Sumatra. He also received a letter of thanks from the Governor of the British Settlements in the Straits of Malacca, as well as the thanks of the Admiralty, for his exertions in proceeding 60 miles up the river Siac, in Sumatra, and recovering from the Rajah several convicts who had effected their escape from Singapore.