Frederic Seaman


Frederick Stephen Seaman was an Indian field hockey player who won a gold medal as part of the Indian team in the 1928 Summer Olympics. Born to Thomas Henry Seaman, a police inspector, and his wife Martha Ann Seaman, he later became a customs officer in British India. Frederick Seaman and his family left India after its independence in 1947, settling in Pennsylvania. He died at Hershey, Pennsylvania in 2004, age 94, and was survived by his wife, Iris Seaman, and two sons, Lloyd Stephen Seaman and Norton Reginald Seaman.