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FRODSHAM, BRIDGE, son of Rev. Robert Frodsham BCL, Vicar of Rostherne, Cheshire, and Catherine ---; bapt. 28 Sep 1733; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1745/6 (Hutton's); KS 1746; ran away from school, but returned and was readm. into College 1748; ran away a second time in 1748, and joined an acting company at Leicester; subsequently joined a company at York, where he became the idol of the local theatre-going public; his Hamlet was considered by Tate Wilkinson as unequalled except by Garrick and Barry; m. Isabella ---, actress; d. 21 Oct 1768. DNB.

FRODSHAM, HARRISON MILL, brother of John Mill Frodsham (qv); b. 2 Jul 1849; adm. 24 Jan 1861 (James'); left Aug 1866; succeeded to father’s business, Charles Frodsham & Co.; m. 25 Apr 1874 Edith A. Rutherford (IGI); d. 24 Sep 1922.

FRODSHAM, JOHN MILL, eldest son of Charles Frodsham, Strand, Westminster, watch and clock maker, and Elizabeth, dau. of John Mill, Montrose, Scotland; b. 6 Feb 1835; adm. 15 Feb 1847 (Rigaud's); King’s Coll., London (AKC); MRCS 1856; MD Edinburgh 1857; a medical practitioner at Streatham, Surrey; JP Surrey and London; m. Therese --- (1881 Census); d. 12 May 1907.

FROST, ---; in school lists 1656.

FROST, HENRY FRANCIS BURNES, son of Charles Maynard Frost FRCS LRCP (Ed), Ladbroke Square, Notting Hill, London, and Emma, dau. of John Adams; b. 21 May 1857; adm. (G) 21 Jan 1870; left Christmas 1874; Royal Indian Engineering Coll., Cooper’s Hill Sep 1876; Public Works Dept., India 1879; employed on irrigation works, chiefly in the Punjab; MICE 10 Apr 1900-12; retd. as Superintending Engineer 21 May 1912; m. 14 Nov 1885 Lilian, dau. of John Dale, Stockton on Tees, co. Durham; d. 11 Aug 1929.

FROST, JOHN; b. ; adm. ; Min. Can. 1635.

Frost, Richard Aylmer, son of Robert Frost, barrister-at-law, and Alexandra, d. of Alexander Rose of Streatham; b. 29 May 1905; adm. Sept. 1919 (G); left July 1924; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1924, BA 1928, MA 1950; Fellow Harvard Univ. 1928; RAFVR (A & SD) in WW2 (Flt Lieut.), MBE Jan. 1944; British Council East Africa, OBE Jan. 1952; DPhil (Oxon.) 1973; author of The British Commonwealth and World Society 1947, Race Against Time 1978, Historic Oxford 1984; m. 1 Sept. 1938 Alice, d. of V. B. Reichwald; d. 5 Mar. 1995.

FROUDE, ASHLEY ANTHONY, only son of James Anthony Froude (qv), and his second wife; b. 28 Jun 1863; adm. ( R) 17 Oct 1876; left May 1881; Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 18 Oct 1881; BA 1884; Assistant Private Secretary to Sir Robert Herbert, Permanent Under-Secretary, Colonial Office 1886-91; Secretary to Commission of Enquiry into Seal Life in Behring Sea and North Pacific, 24 Jun 1891; attached to Behring Sea Arbitration 1892; CMG 17 Aug 1892; Assistant Private Secretary, Colonial Office 1896; Lieut., RNVR 15 Mar 1915; attached HMS Columbine and HMS Tarlair 1915-9; retd. as acting Cdr., Feb 1919; OBE 10 Jul 1919; DL Devon, JP Devon 1896; m. 19 Jan 1897 Ethel Aubrey, only dau. of Capt. Albert Praed Hallifax, Kingsbridge, Devon; d. 17 Apr 1949.