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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.

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.