Sebastian Tamm

Sebastian Tamm represented the rowing club of the Lundsberg School, a famous Swedish boarding school in Värmland which he attended. Together with rowers from Malmö, Hälsingborg and Stockholm, Tamm took part in the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm as part of the Roddklubben af 1912 team. In the eights, the crew lost to the eventual silver medallists from the New College, Oxford in the quarter-final. One day after the end of the Olympic races, the Nordic Championship were held on the same course. Here the of the Roddklubben af 1912 won the final against Kristiania RK from Norway.

Sebastian Tamm was the son of Hugo Petrus Percival Tamm, a landowner and member of the Swedish parliament, the Riksdag, where he was the leader of the Moderates. Sebastian worked as an engineer and manager and was appointed Knight of the Order of Vasa in 1922. Later, he travelled around the world and eventually settled in Kenya in 1929 and became a farmer near the town of Ruiru outside of Nairobi. Six years later Tamm married Ulla Helena Lamberg in Mombasa. They had two sons and two daughters. In 1940, the family returned to Sweden and lived in Värmland as a landowner in Gromossen. During this time Tamm was commander of the local Home Guard district. He moved to Väsby Gård in Julita in 1944.