Frederick Thomas Seelye

Frederick Thomas Seelye was a notable New Zealand analytical chemist and lecturer. He was born in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand in 1879. He became an instructor of mathematics and chemistry at the Waihi School of Mines in 1902, and in 1920 he was hired by the Dominion Laboratory as the chief silicate analyst.
He was elected a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry in 1943, and Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi in 1944.
Seelye died in Wellington, New Zealand at the age of 83, and was survived by his wife Flora Annabella Nicholson, two sons and a daughter.