Tapley Seaton children: Does Tapley Seaton have kids? – It’s unclear if Sir Samuel Weymouth Tapley Seaton, the fourth governor-general of Saint Kitts and Nevis from 2015 to 2023 had children at the time of death. This is because there is no information about his children online. Seaton was born on 28 July 1950 and died on 29 June 2023 at age 72. He died just five months after leaving office.
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Seaton received his primary and secondary education from Epworth Junior School, Basseterre High School, and St. Kitts-Nevis Grammar School.
He attended The University of West Indies in Jamaica and received a Bachelor of Laws degree, a moment that set forth his legal career.
He continued further studies with the Council of Legal Education (at the Hugh Wooding Law School, Trinidad, and the Norman Manley Law School, Jamaica), where he gained his Legal Education Certificate, and the University of Bordeaux in France, where he completed a Diploma in French.
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Seaton joined the St. Kitts-Nevis Judicial Service and held positions such as Supreme Court Registrar, Provost Marshal, and Acting Additional Magistrate.
He was also Crown Counsel for the Attorney General’s Chambers and the High Court Registrar in 1975.
He was appointed Attorney General of St. Kitts and Nevis in 1980 and served until 1995.
In 1988, he was appointed as one of Her Majesty’s Counsels (Queen’s Counsel) in the United Kingdom.
Seaton was appointed acting governor-general on May 20, 2015, following the resignation of his predecessor, Sir Edmund Wickham Lawrence.
On the suggestion of Prime Minister Timothy Harris, Queen Elizabeth II named him governor-general on September 1, 2015.
Source: abtc.ng
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