Captain David Peter Seely, 4th Baron Mottistone (16 December 1920 – 24 November 2011) was a naval officer and

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. Seely was born in 1920. He was the eldest son of the 1st Baron Mottistone from his second marriage to Evelyn Izme Murray daughter of

Montolieu Oliphant-Murray, 1st Viscount Elibank Commander (Royal Navy), Commander Montolieu Fox Oliphant Murray, 1st Viscount Elibank, (27 April 1840 – 20 February 1927) was a British nobleman. The eldest son of Alexander Oliphant-Murray, 9th Lord Elibank and Emily Montgomery, he was educat ...

and 10th Lord Elibank, and half-brother to Henry John Alexander Seely, 2nd Baron Mottistone and Arthur Patrick William Seely, 3rd Baron Mottistone. He was a grandson of

Sir Charles Seely, 1st Baronet Colonel Sir Charles Seely, 1st Baronet Venerable Order of Saint John, KGStJ, Deputy Lieutenant, DL (11 August 1833 – 16 April 1915) was a British industrialist and politician. Seely was Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party Member of Parliament ( ...

. He was baptised with

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and the then

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(subsequently Edward VIII, and then later Duke of Windsor) as his godparents. He served in the

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, ultimately reaching the rank of captain. He commanded between 1958 and 1959 and between 1963 and 1965. In 1966 he succeeded to the barony and retired from the service. He was Lord Lieutenant of the Isle of Wight from 1986 to 1995 and the last

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of the

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from 1992 to 1995, where the Seely family have played a prominent role since the 1850s. He was created a

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in 1984 and made an Honorary

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in 1993. He was also an ex officio member of The

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. He died on 24 November 2011. He was succeeded by his eldest son Peter John Philip Seely, born 29 October 1949, who was a godson of

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* Obituary in the Daily Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/naval-obituaries/8973893/Lord-Mottistone.html

External links

Burke's Peerage and Gentry

The Churchill Papers

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Mottistone Mottistone is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Brighstone, on the Isle of Wight, England. It is located in the popular tourist area the Back of the Wight. It is located 8 miles southwest of Newport in the southwest of ...

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