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Earle Edward Seaton was born in Bermuda on February 29, 1924, the third of four children to Dudley and Eva Seaton, emigrants from St. Kitt's. He was raised in Hamilton and graduated from Barclay's Institute as class Validictorian in 1941. He excelled at the violin, earning spending money by playing for tourists at Bermuda hotels, and he also excelled at tennis. His tennis prowess earned him a full scholarship to Howard University in Washington, D.C. While at Howard, he became president of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity and he majored in Biology. Also during his four years at Howard, Earle met Alberta Jones from Texas and the two marry in 1948.

Although he wanted to become a doctor, his father persuaded him to study law and so Earle enrolled at London University. The Pan Africanism movement, which was gaining adherents at the time, attracted his attention. Earle learned KiSwahili and began a life-long association with East African students while studying law at London University. In 1947, he became a barrister-at-law and in 1948 he married Alberta Jones who had by that time, obtained her doctorate in Biology from the University of Brussels.

The young married couple emigrated to Moshi in the then-British colony of Tanganyika where Earle established his law practice.