Transcript

of

Frederick Cornish Frost [Obituary]

Maxwell Adams (Ed.).

Trans. Devon. Assoc., vol.  46, (1914), p. 42.

Prepared by Michael Steer

The obituary was read at the Association’s July 1914 Tavistock meeting. Mr Frost was an antiquarian who managed the local family auctioneer business. He became a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1913 and died prematurely of a heart attack in 1914. On 14th April 1910, he wrote to the Teignmouth Post and Gazette, attempting to persuade members of the Teignmouth Council to place a series of plaques throughout the town commemorating its association with a number of historic figures. Among these was the celebrated poet John Keats. More information on the issue is available at the ‘Teignmouth in Verse’ website. The obituary, from a copy of a rare and much sought-after journal can be downloaded from the Internet Archive. Google has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. These books, on which copyright has expired, are available for free educational and research use, both as individual books and as full collections to aid researchers.

Mr. Frost was born at Bickington in 1854 and was educated at Taunton School. He was the principal of the firm of Frost and Son, auctioneers of Teignmouth, where he succeeded his father in the business twenty-five years ago. He was a man of considerable attainments and took a great interest in antiquarian and archaeological matters, more particularly in the direction of armoury and county history. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1911 and was also a member of the Society of Antiquaries (Ireland), of the Devon Antiquarian Society and of the British Numismatic Society. He joined the Devonshire Association as a Life Member in 1894. He died suddenly of heart failure on 14 May, 1914, and leaves a widow, one son, and two daughters.