Tapley Seaton’s wife: Was Tapley Seaton married? – It’s unclear if Sir Samuel Weymouth Tapley Seaton, the fourth governor-general of Saint Kitts and Nevis from 2015 to 2023 was married at the time of death. This is because there is no information about his wife online.
Seaton was born on 28 July 1950 and died on 29 June 2023. He died just five months after leaving office. He was 72 years.
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.
Seaton also served on various boards, national committees, and organizations in various capacities which included director of SSMC, the Chamber of Industry and Commerce, and Frigate Bay Development Corporation; president of the St. Christopher Heritage Society (now The St. Christopher National Trust), the St. Kitts-Nevis Bar Association and the OECS Bar Association; and vice president for the Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park Society and the St. Christopher National Trust; chairman of Cable & Wireless (formerly SCANTEL).