Samuel Seaton was an explorer who was murdered by the noted anthropologist and fellow explorer Sir Robert Jermyn. (HPL: "Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family")
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On the 19th of October, 1852, Seaton visited the Jermyn home with a manuscript of notes collected in Africa. From these notes and other revelations, Robert discovered to his horror that there was a simian strain in his own family originating from a union between his grandfather Wade Jermyn and a female member of a race of African white apes. (HPL: "Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family")
The unhinged Robert strangled Seaton to death and murdered his own three children in order to eradicate his stained bloodline, but his two year old grandson Alfred survived. Robert died of apoplexy during the second year of his confinement in an asylum after repeated attempts at suicide. (HPL: "Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family")