Charles Frost (1781?–1862) was an English lawyer and antiquary.

Life

Born at

Kingston upon Hull Kingston upon Hull, usually abbreviated to Hull, is a port city and unitary authority in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It lies upon the River Hull at its confluence with the Humber Estuary, inland from the North Sea and south-east ...

, Yorkshire, in 1781 or 1782, he was the son of Thomas Frost, a Hull solicitor He followed the same profession, and, as his father had been before him, was solicitor to the

Hull Dock Company The Port of Hull is a port at the confluence of the River Hull and the Humber Estuary in Kingston upon Hull, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. Seaborne trade at the port can be traced to at least the 13th century, originally cond ...

. He was elder brother to the writer and traveller Elizabeth Strutt.Faulkner, Thomas (1839
''The history and antiquities of the parish of Hammersmith, interspersed with biographical notices of illustrious and eminent persons, who have been born, or who have resided in the parish, during the three preceding centuries''
London: Nichols & Son p.303 Frost died at Hull, 5 September 1862, aged 80 or 81.

Works

Frost studied the handwriting of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and on 2 May 1822 he was elected a

Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries A fellow is a concept whose exact meaning depends on context. In learned or professional societies, it refers to a privileged member who is specially elected in recognition of their work and achievements. Within the context of higher education ...

. In 1827 he published by subscription ''Notices relative to the Early History of the Town and Port of Hull; ..'' with illustrations by Bartholomew Howlett. In it he claimed to show that the town commonly attributed to have been founded by

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( John Leland,

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and others), was expanded from an earlier habitation on the same site, named Wyke, which was separate from the place known as Myton to the west. The work was the subject of a long and flattering critique by

Nicholas Harris Nicolas Sir (Nicholas) Harris Nicolas (10 March 1799 – 3 August 1848) was an English antiquary. Life The fourth son of Commander John Harris Nicolas R.N. (1758–1844) and Margaret née Blake, he was born at Dartmouth. He was the brother of Rear Ad ...

in the ''

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'' for December 1827. Another publication, also of local value, was his 'Address,’ 1831, delivered to the Hull Literary and Philosophical Society at the opening of the seventh session on 5 November 1830, in which he mentions various literary societies which had been promoted in the town during the preceding half-century, and gives brief biographical notices of most of the Hull author. A subsequent presidential address, delivered by him in 1852, was also published. Frost was president of the society ten times between 1830 and 1855; he served as president of the subscription library for twelve years, between 1827 and 1854, the laws being suspended so that he might occupy the position for five successive years, 1850–4, to enable him to carry into effect his scheme for the amalgamation of the two societies in a building in Albion Street. He published two legal pamphlets. One was on the ''Propriety of making a remuneration to witnesses in civil actions for loss of time. … '', published 1815. The other consisted of a letter to Thomas Thompson on the subject of 'Equalising the poor rates of Hull by assessing the shipping belonging to the port to the relief of the poor,’ published in 1820.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Frost, Charles 1781 births 1862 deaths English solicitors English antiquarians People from Kingston upon Hull Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London 19th-century English lawyers