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, 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, 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, JAMES ANTHONY, brother of William Froude (qv); b. 13 Apr 1818; adm. 15 Jan 1830 (Stelfox's); KS 1830; left 1833; Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 10 Dec 1835; Chancellor’s Prize for English Essay 1842; BA 1842; MA 1843; Devon Fellow, Exeter Coll. Oxford, 1842 - 27 Feb 1849, when his book Nemesis of Faith was burnt by Dr Sewell in Exeter College Hall; ordained deacon 1844, but availed himself of the provisions of the Clerical Disabilities Relief Act 19 Jul 1872; after his first marriage he devoted himself to historical and literary work; editor, Fraser’s Magazine, 1860-74; sent as Commissioner to Cape of Good Hope to report upon South African confederation 1874-5; Rector of St. Andrew’s Univ., 1868-71, LLD St. Andrew’s 1869; Hon. Fellow, Exeter Coll. Oxford 1882, Oriel Coll. Oxford 1892; Hon. LLD Edinburgh 1884; Regius Professor of Modern History, Oxford Univ., from 18 Apr 1892; author, A History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 1856-70, and other works; in his Shadows of the Clouds, 1847, Froude tells the melancholy story of Edward Fowler, a Westminster boy, which may contain reminiscences of his own far from happy school career (Paul, Life of Froude, 1905, 10-1); m. 1st, 3 Oct 1849 Charlotte Maria, fifth dau. of Pascoe Grenfell MP, Taplow Court, Bucks.; m. 2nd, 12 Sep 1861 Henrietta Elizabeth, dau. of John Ashley Warre MP, West Cliff House, Ramsgate, Kent; d. 20 Oct 1894. DNB.

FROUDE, WILLIAM, fourth son of Ven. Robert Hurrell Froude, Archdeacon of Totnes and Rector of Dartington, Devon, and Margaret Spedding, Mirehouse; b. 28 Nov 1810; adm. 28 May 1823 (Stelfox's); KS 1824; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1828, adm. pens. 16 May 1828, but went to Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 23 Oct 1828; 1st cl. Mathematics and 3rd cl. Lit. Hum. 1832; BA 1832; MA 1837; pupil of Henry Robinson Palmer, civil engineer, 1833; joined engineering staff of Isambard Kingdom Brunel on the Bristol and Exeter Railway 1837; while working for Brunel he propounded the “curve of adjustment”; gave up active involvement in civil engineering in mid 1840s, owing to failing health of his father; undertook research into ship design; devised bilge-keels to prevent the rolling of ships; conducted experiments at the Admiralty Experiment Works, Torquay, on the resistance and propulsion of ships; invented a dynamometer to determine the power of large marine engines; MICE 7 Apr 1846, member Council 1877; FRS 2 Jun 1870, Royal Medal 1876; LLD Glasgow 27 Apr 1876; m. 4 May 1839 Catherine Henrietta Easterbrook, youngest dau. of Arthur Howe Holdsworth MP, Widdicombe and Brooke Hill, Devon; d. at Admiralty House, Simonstown, Cape Colony 4 May 1879. DNB.

Fry, Gilbert Herbert, only son of Herbert Thomas Fry, of London, by Caroline Amelia, daughter of Johnston Batchelar, of Brookham, Surrey; b. Feb. 24, 1871; adm. Sept. 28, 1883 (H); exhibitioner 1884; elected to an exhibition at Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1889, scholar 1890, matric. Oct. 11, 1889; B.A. 1893; M.A. 1898; a chartered accountant; practised in Johannesburg; retired 1933; d. March 2. 3, 1951

Fry, Reginald Witherby, son of Oliver Armstrong Fry, of Maida Vale, London, barrister-at­law, by Annie Zetterquist, youngest daughter of the Rev. George Crabbe Rolfe, Vicar of Hailey-cum-Crawley, co. Oxon.; b. July 25, 1885; adm. Sept. 30, 1897 (A); left July 1902; a theatrical manager; m. June 1914, Edwyth, daughter of William Russell, of Hemel Hempstead, Herts.; d. 1965.

Fryzer, John Francis, son of Alfred William Fryzer, solicitor, and Maude Mary, d. of John McNicol; b. 12 Dec. 1918; adm. Sept. 1932 (R); left July 1937; BNC Oxf., matric. 193 7, BA 1941, MA 1944; Middx Regt in WW2 (Maj.); adm. a solicitor Mar. 1949; in practice in London; m. 3 Apr. 1956 Laura Mary, d. of John Allan Williams of Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire; d. 19 Oct. 1993.