Dedicated to the memory of David Seal

This site is a tribute to David Seal.  Please feel free to add your thoughts - we would love to hear from you and your stories of David. 

David had many interests in his life including his love of maths, mathematical puzzles, games, D&D and folk music.   David read very widely - both fiction and factual.  He took a keen interest in the sciences, in wildlife and in environmental issues.  He supported many humanitarian and charitable causes. 

David had a brilliant mind and a very successful career - he represented the UK twice in International Maths Olympiads as a teen, and went on to study maths at Cambridge.  He is also accredited with some of early work in solving the Rubik's Cube.  After university, David worked for Acorn computers before continuing on to become a founder employee of ARM.

David's decline was sudden and unexpected - he died in late December, having only been admitted to hospital a few days before with a tumour that had developed undetected.

David will be sadly missed by family and friends.  He is much loved and will always be remembered.

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I didn't know David but I did used to read his posts on the Motley Fool site. They were always, articulate, detailed and informative .....a pleasure to read. I only very recently learned of his passing and pass my condolences to his family and friends.
Peter Greenhill
21st December 2022
I knew David when he was a teenager at Winchester College and had the pleasurable task of helping him acclimatise to a quirky English public school from the liberal Dutch School that he had been attending. David was unphased by the transition and very rapidly showed his mathematical genius. I remember we both enjoyed electronics; he designed a logic system on a sheet of paper to play Tic Tac Toe, and we then jointly constructed it using TTL 7400 ICs, and it worked! This must have been David's first venture into practical electronics, and look how far he went from there. I lost touch with him after we left school, but read of his sad early death in our school magazine. What a great loss; he was a uniquely intelligent man and, by all accounts, a legend in his own lifetime.
Hugo Hammersley
14th December 2022
I played Bridge with David in the pub on Tues evenings. Or rather I should say I played bridge against David because he played with with his regular partner Jon. They used a bidding system which they called the Fawber Four Barrelled system, which had been devised over a weekend at Fawber Farm and which was insanely complicated. Now in Bridge you are allowed to ask the opponents what any of their bids mean, however it was a tenant that when playing against David and Jon that you never asked what their bids meant as that would provide them the opportunity to explain their bids to each other, and as their system was so insanely complicated they had regularly forgotten what any particular bid meant. It was best just to leave them to their own devices and hope they dug themselves into a hole which happened more frequently as the night wore on. I have very fond memories of working with David at Acorn and Arm, playing Bridge on Tuesdays and spending time at Fawber. He was a true gentleman
Edward
6th February 2022