Seaton Clifford Laybourne Phillips 1928-2024
This is a memorial gallery for Seaton Phillips. Click on any of the thumbnails for a full-screen image. If you have other photos you’d like to add, please email me. Thank you.
Here is the eulogy of Seaton’s life, written by his children and read at his funeral.
You can also read (or listen to) my poem, The Adventurer.
Seaton wrote two books with accounts of his adventures: A Family in Africa and From South Wales to New South Wales, by Train. Both are available from Amazon.
1928-1963
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Seaton (7 months old( and Rosalind (1yr 10 months) with Nannie ('Bear'?). Oct 1928.
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Seaton, aged about 5, c1933.
This painting stood in a small frame on the sideboard at Llwynffynnon Uchaf.
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Seaton and Rosalind at Caswell, 1929.
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Seaton, Jan, ?, Alison, Rosalind at Tenby, c1937.
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Family group at Tenby, c1937. Gertrude Williams, Marge Colborne, Rosalind, Jan, Seaton, Dorothy, Alison, Tony Williams, Walter.
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Jan, Rosalind and Seaton at Tenby, c1935.
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Rosalind, Seaton, Jan and Alison At Wiseman's Bridge, Sept 1937.
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Seaton and Jan with Coronation Day Ices, 1937.
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Colborne family group in 1939. Tony Williams, Dorothy Phillips, Alison, Seaton, Joan Whitty, Louise Colborne.
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Seaton with George, Oliver, Martin and Marge Probyn, Walter and Dorothy Phillips. (At Grey Hill? c1955)
1963-1972
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Jennifer’s christening, Highley. With Marion, Peter and Seaton. 30.10.66.
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Jennifer’s christening, Highley. 30.10.66
Graham Day, Bo Masters with Jennifer, Banba Pennant, ?, Peter, Marion, Seaton, Alice and David Pennant.
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Canoe on Tweed, Old Melrose. Seaton and Peter. 19.3.66
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Family group at Beaumont, Monmouth. Peter, Dorothy, Alison, Timothy, Marion, Seaton and 'Mist'. May 1969.
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Seaton and Timothy, with Laburnum in flower. (1969)
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Heatwave haymaking at The Newlands. Seaton and Peter. June 1970.
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Spray showering. Seaton and Peter in the garden at The Newlands. June 1970.
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Crosscut sawing at The Newlands.
Seaton and Marion with Peter, Jenny and Tim. Jan. 1971.
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Shooting party, Chapelpark Moor. 13.9.66
1972-73: A Family in Africa
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Seaton fitting new exhaust manifold, Ghardaia, Algeria. 1972.
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Seaton with Sugarbush in flower.
Rwanda, 1973.
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At the Beakbanes’ house (Colborne relations), Limuru, near Nairobi. 1973
Jenny, Peter, Marion, ?, ?, Tim, Seaton.
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Inspecting vehicle ‘flags’ at Karen, Kenya before departure back to UK. Seaton, Jenny, Peter. 1973
These are the countries we visited: Morocco, Algeria, Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Zaire, Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya. (no flags for Rwanda and Tanzania due to change of route)
1973-2000
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Seaton took part as a contestant in a TV quiz show for people who were learning Welsh, c1978
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Seaton, Alison, Jenny, Peter, Tim, Marion. (c1977)
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Walter and Dorothy's Golden Wedding, 1975.
Back: Seaton and Marion Phillips, Bernard and Rosalind Marchant, Walter and Dorothy Phillips, Alison Phillips, Richard and Jan Harpur.
Front: Peter, Cathy, George, Nick, Jenny, Tim, Christopher, Philip, James.
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Seaton baling hay with Jones baler. 7th June 1976.
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Swim in the Teifi at Cwmisdwr. Seaton with Peter, Jenny and Tim. July 1975.
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Seaton and Peter in the Alps. 1980.
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Seaton meets a cow in the Alps. 1980.
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Peter, Marion, Seaton looking at a Glacier in Switzerland, 1980.
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Seaton, Timothy and Peter consulting the map in the Alps, 1980.
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Seaton and family at a wild campsite in the Alps, 1980.
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Seaton and Peter in action on the tennis court. Near Brecon, June 1981.
Pyers and Jessica in the background?
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Seaton in Snowdonia on a camping and climbing holiday with Pyers and family. August 1981.
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What occasion was this? Please let me know if you can identify date or place or people.
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Seaton with Andreas and Erich (?), Salzburg, Austria, October 1999.
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Seaton with a fellow youth-hosteller, Sicily (?), October 1999.
2000-2024
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Seaton with Olivia, Poole, c2001.
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David and Jennie's 25th Wedding Anniversary, 2004.
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Alice and Alex's wedding, Felindre, 2006.
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Seaton with Chris and Pyers Pennant, at Jess and Omar's wedding, Litlington, Sussex, c2006.
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Pennant sibling group, c2010.
Back: David, Pyers, Seaton, Chris.
Front: Jennie, Camilla, Marion, Nick.
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Helen, Tim, Jenny, Peter, Alice, Marion and Seaton.
(At Pyers' funeral, 2018)
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Seaton's 90th birthday, March 2018.
Seaton, Jenny, Marion.
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Seaton and Marion at ??, 2023.
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Seaton and Marion at Llwynfynnon Uchaf, c2020
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Seaton with great-grandson Noah, 2022
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Seaton with Jenny, Adam and Noah, 2022.
Son, Father, Grandmother, Great-grandfather.
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Seaton with Noah, September 2023.
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Seaton and Marion with Christopher Marchant, Gloria and Tom in the garden at Llwynffynnon Uchaf (2022)
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Seaton at Cwmtydu, July 2019.
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Alison and Seaton at Cwmtydu, July 2019.
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Seaton at Llwynffynnon Uchaf, c2020.
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Seaton reading Peter's 'Poems from Poole', 2023.
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Seaton at Llwynffynnon Uchaf, Autumn 2022.
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Seaton in the garden at Llwynffynnon Uchaf, 2023
