Fred Frost
{{Short description|New Zealand politician and clergyman}}
{{about||the English cyclist|Frederick Frost (cyclist)|the American western author Frederick Schiller Faust, who wrote under this name|Max Brand}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
|honorific-prefix = The Reverend
|name = Fred Frost
|honorific-suffix =
|image = Frederick Legder Frost.jpg
|alt =
|caption =
|constituency_MP3 = New Plymouth
|parliament3 = New Zealand
|term_start3 = 15 October 1938
|term_end3 = 25 September 1943
|predecessor3 = Sydney George Smith
|successor3 = Ernest Aderman
|birth_date = 1887
|birth_place = Northumberland, England
|death_date = 19 July 1957
|death_place = Auckland, New Zealand
|spouse = Margaret Clarice Seed
|children = 5
|relations = Darien Fenton (granddaughter)
|party = Labour
}}
Reverend Frederick Ledger Frost (1887 – 19 July 1957) was a New Zealand clergyman and politician of the Labour Party.
Biography
=Early life and career=
Frost was born in Northumberland, England, in 1887 and from the ages of 13 to 24 was a coal-miner in England and then Australia.{{cite news |title=Former New Plymouth M.P.'s Death |work=Taranaki Daily News |date=23 July 1957}} 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 he was a soldier in the 1st Otago Tunneling Corps, then became a Chaplain-Captain before being wounded in action in 1918.{{sfn|Gustafson|1986|p=281}}
He was for 14 years a Methodist minister and City Missioner in Auckland initially, but then stationed at Stratford, Dunedin, Edendale, Lyttelton and Tauranga. He changed to the Anglican Church in 1924, becoming a vicar in Taradale in 1926 until 1935.{{sfn|Gustafson|1986|p=281}}
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 Board from 1931 to 1935. He then worked in broadcasting at the head office of the Labour Department from 1936 to 1938.{{sfn|Gustafson|1986|p=281}}
=Member of Parliament=
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{{NZ parlbox|party=New Zealand Labour Party|term=26th|start=1938|end=1943|electorate=New Plymouth}}
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Frost stood for New Plymouth unsuccessfully in {{NZ election link year|1931}} and {{NZ election link year|1935}}{{cite news |title=Election Results |url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19351206.2.97.11 |access-date=14 November 2013 |work=The Evening Post |date=6 December 1935 |volume=CXX |issue=137 |page=10}} as the Labour Party candidate.
He represented the New Plymouth electorate from the 1938 general election to 1943, when he was defeated by the National candidate, Rev Ernest Aderman, who was also a Christian minister.{{sfn|Wilson|1985|pp=198}} 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, was elected to Parliament as a Labour MP in {{NZ election link year|2005}}.[http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10347078 "New MPs: Darien Fenton"], Kevin Taylor, 24 September 2005, The New Zealand Herald
Notes
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References
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- {{cite book |last= Wilson |first= James Oakley |title= New Zealand parliamentary record, 1840–1984 |edition= 4 |orig-year= First ed. published 1913 |year= 1985 |publisher= V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer |location= Wellington |oclc= 154283103 }}
- {{cite book |last=Gustafson |first=Barry |author-link=Barry Gustafson |title=From the Cradle to the Grave: a biography of Michael Joseph Savage |year=1986 |publisher=Reed Methuen |location=Auckland |isbn=0-474-00138-5 }}
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{{s-bef | before = Sydney George Smith }}
{{s-ttl | title = Member of Parliament for New Plymouth | years = 1938–1943 }}
{{s-aft | after = Ernest Aderman }}
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Category:New Zealand Labour Party MPs
Category:People from Northumberland
Category:New Zealand coal miners
Category:Immigrants to Australia
Category:Immigrants to New Zealand
Category:New Zealand military personnel of World War I
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Category:Unsuccessful candidates in the 1935 New Zealand general election
Category:Unsuccessful candidates in the 1931 New Zealand general election
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Category:20th-century New Zealand Anglican priests
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