Sir John Frost

Sir John Frost

Sir John Frost KCMG (8 August 1818 - 2 April 1918) was an Anglo-South African cabinet minister and landowner.

Frost was the son of William and Maria Frost, landowners in Lincolnshire. He immigrated to The Cape in 1849 where he built up an estate, Thibet Park, on the upper Black Kei River.

He was one of the leading farmers in the Queenstown district and served as an officer in the Frontier Wars of the Eastern Cape, including the quelling of te Transkei Rebellion. In 1874 he was elected a member of the House of Assembly. In politics he was asscoiated with Sir Gordon Sprigg. He was a Cabinet Minister as Secretary for Native Affairs in 1893 in the ministry of Cecil John Rhodes and later Secretary for Agriculture. During the Anglo-Boer War he was an advisor of the ill-fated Sir Redvers Buller.

He was knighted as a KCMG in 1904. Lady Frost, his wife, was born Frances Cordelia Powell (born 20 September 1834 died 20 October 1927. She was a niece of Colonial Secretary Sir Richard Southey and a cousin of Lord Baden-Powell.

Sir John and Lady Frost lived at their country estate, Thibet Park on the Kei River. They also had a house in Cape Town, Eastbrooke House in Rondebosch. They had three daughters and five sons.

References

* "Dictionary of South African Biography"


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