Sir John Simeon, 4th Baronet

Who was Sir John Simeon, 4th Baronet?

Sir John Stephen Barrington Simeon, 4th Baronet was one of the two Members of Parliament for Southampton at the end of the 19th century and the start of the 20th century. He was born at Swainston Manor in West Wight on 31 August 1850 and succeeded his father, the 3rd baronet, in 1870. He served in the Ensign Rifle Brigade until he married Isabella Dutton in 1872. In 1880 he became private secretary to the Rt Hon John Bright, MP, and entered parliament himself in 1895 as a Liberal Unionist. Shortly after his election he commissioned a private railway station at Watchingwell, some four miles west of Newport. Re-elected in 1900 he left the House of Commons in 1906 and died three years later.