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

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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

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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,

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, Edendale, Lyttelton and

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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

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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

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unsuccessfully in and as the Labour Party candidate. He represented the

electorate from the 1938 general election to 1943, when he was defeated by the National candidate, Rev

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, 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,

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, 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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