Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Politician, naval office, politician, and poet. Pseudonym: S. Born in the Isle of Wight. Educated at Christ Church College, Oxford. Married twice, Jane Maria Baker on 26 November 1840 and the Honourable Catherine Dorothea Colville in 1861. Elected MP for the Isle of Wight in 1847, but resigned in 1851 when he converted to Catholicism. Succeeded to the baronetcy in 1854. Subsequently re-elected (1865-1870). Travelled to France, Germany, and Switzerland. Friends with Alfred Tennyson. Biographical information: Boase 3: 575; The Last Days of Sir John Simeon, The Month: A Magazine and Review, vol. 2, July-December, 1870, pp. 481-484. (AC, CC)