Sir John Simeon, 1st Baronet

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Sir John Simeon, 1st Baronet (1756 – 4 February 1824) of Walliscot in

Senior Master, and was created 1st Baronet Simeon in 1815.[1]

Simeon was the second eldest son of Richard Simeon (died 1784) and Elizabeth Hutton.

Edward Simeon, was a director of the Bank of England.[3] His youngest brother, Charles Simeon, became a prominent evangelical clergyman.[3][4]

Family

Rebecca, Lady Simeon (d. 1830) (Thomas Lawrence)

John Simeon married Rebecca Cornwall, daughter of John Cornwall of Hendon House in Middlesex, in 1783. They had a number of children:

Coat of arms of Sir John Simeon, 1st 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. ^ The Peerage.com
  2. ^ Simeon 1847, pp. 1–2.
  3. ^ a b Simeon 1847, p. 2.
  4. ^ "Simeon, Charles (SMN779C)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  5. ^ The Gentleman's Magazine
  6. ^ Burke's Peerage. 1949.

References

Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by
1800
With: Francis Annesley
Succeeded by
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Parliament of Great Britain
1801 – 1802
With: Francis Annesley
Succeeded by
Charles Shaw-Lefevre
Preceded by
Charles Shaw-Lefevre
Charles Shaw-Lefevre
Succeeded by
Charles Shaw-Lefevre
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New title
Baronet

of Grazeley, Berkshire
1815–1824
Succeeded by
Richard Godin Simeon