Sir Michael Seymour, 1st Baronet

Palace in County Limerick, Ireland, became the birthplace of Rear-Admiral Sir Michael Seymour on 8 November 1768. The house stood at the edge of a world where childhood ended quickly and the sea began, shaping a boy who would spend decades breaking French lines and commanding British ships. Its rooms may have held little more than candlelight, prayer books and the smell of rain on stone, yet they produced one of the Royal Navy’s most persistent officers.