Reverend Frederick Ledger Frost (1887 – 19 July 1957) was a New Zealand politician of the
Labour Party.
Biography
Early life and career
Frost was born in
Northumberland
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It is bordered by land on ...
,
England
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, in 1887 and from the ages of 13 to 24 was a coal-miner in England and then Australia.
He came to New Zealand in 1911, and worked in the
Millerton mines before becoming a Methodist minister. He enlisted in the army during
World War I
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he was a soldier in the 1st Otago Tunneling Corps, then became a Chaplain-Captain before being wounded in action in 1918.
He was for 14 years a Methodist minister and City Missioner in Auckland initially, but then stationed at
Stratford,
Dunedin
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,
Edendale,
Lyttelton and
Tauranga
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. He changed to the Anglican Church in 1924, becoming a vicar in
Taradale in 1926 until 1935.
He was President of the Taradale
Returned and Services' Association from 1927 to 1934 and member of both the Hawke's Bay Education Board and
Napier Boys' High School
Napier Boys' High School is a secondary boys' school in, Napier, New Zealand. It currently has a school roll of approximately pupils. The school provides education from Year 9 to Year 13.
Notable alumni
Business
* Rod Drury – chief execu ...
Board from 1931 to 1935. He then worked in broadcasting at the head office of the Labour Department from 1936 to 1938.
Member of Parliament
Frost stood for
New Plymouth
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unsuccessfully in and as the
Labour Party candidate.
He represented the
New Plymouth
New Plymouth ( mi, Ngāmotu) is the major city of the Taranaki region on the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It is named after the English city of Plymouth, Devon from where the first English settlers to New Plymouth migrated. ...
electorate from the
1938 general election to 1943, when he was defeated by the National candidate, Rev
Ernest Aderman
Rev. Ernest Philip Aderman (né Adermann; 22 May 1894 – 27 February 1968) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party.
Biography Early life and family
Aderman was born in Queensland, Australia, in 1894. He was one of eight children b ...
, who was also a Christian minister. He was the first Labour MP to represent New Plymouth in Parliament.
Later life and death
After he was defeated he moved to Auckland in 1943.
He died in Auckland on 19 July 1957, survived by his wife, son and four daughters.
His granddaughter,
Darien Fenton
Darien Elizabeth Fenton (born 25 February 1954) is a New Zealand politician and was a Member of Parliament from until her retirement in 2014.
Personal life and early career
Fenton's grandfather, Fred Frost, was a Labour MP for New Plymouth ...
, was elected to Parliament as a Labour MP in .
"New MPs: Darien Fenton"
Kevin Taylor, 24 September 2005, The New Zealand Herald
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1887 births
1957 deaths
New Zealand Labour Party MPs
People from Taranaki
New Zealand Methodist ministers
New Zealand Anglican priests
People from Northumberland
New Zealand coal miners
British emigrants
Immigrants to Australia
Immigrants to New Zealand
New Zealand military personnel of World War I
Unsuccessful candidates in the 1943 New Zealand general election
Unsuccessful candidates in the 1935 New Zealand general election
Unsuccessful candidates in the 1931 New Zealand general election
Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives
New Zealand MPs for North Island electorates
20th-century New Zealand Anglican priests
20th-century New Zealand Methodist ministers
20th-century New Zealand politicians