FRAZER, John James, stage name of John James Fricker. Principal tenor singer in London 1843; went to the United States about 1851. d. Philadelphia 18 June 1863 in 59 year.
FREAKE, Sir Charles James, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Charles Freake of St. George’s, Hanover sq. London). b. 7 April 1814; contested Chelsea 17 Nov. 1868; built Cromwell road and other streets in Kensington; created baronet 23 May 1882. d. 1 Cromwell houses, Kensington, London 6 Oct. 1884.
FREDERICK, Charles (2 son of lieut. colonel Thomas Frederick, who d. 28 May 1844 aged 80). b. 7 May 1797; entered navy 5 June 1810; captain 23 Oct. 1842; member of Irish relief committee 1847; member of Board of Admiralty, June 1859; senior officer on coast of Ireland 31 March 1865 to 8 Oct. 1867; retired admiral 30 July 1875. d. 13 Victoria st. Westminster 23 Dec. 1875.
FREDERICK, Edward (son of col. Charles Frederick). b. 23 June 1784; entered Bombay army 1799; col. 10 Bombay N.I. 28 June 1838 to death; general 26 June 1860; C.B. 28 July 1838. d. Shawford house, Hants. 5 Dec. 1866.
FREEBURN, James. b. parish of St. Cuthbert’s, Midlothian 1808; enlisted in 7th battalion of R.A. 1825, serjeant-major April 1844, quartermaster of 10th battalion 1 April 1846 to 21 April 1856 when he retired with hon. rank of captain; invented an elaborate series of metal and wood fuzes for exploding live shells 1846, his fuzes were adopted in the army 1847. d. Plumstead, Woolwich 5 Aug. 1876.
FREEMAN, Ven. Philip (son of Edmund Freeman of The Cedars, Combs, Suffolk). b. The Cedars 3 Feb. 1818; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., scholar 1835; Craven univ. scholar 1838; B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842; fellow of St. Peter’s coll. 1842–53; principal of theological coll. Chichester 1846–55; canon and reader in theology in Cumbrae coll. Scotland 1855–58; V. of Thorverton, Devon 1858–74; preb. of Exeter 1861–64; canon of Exeter 1864 to death; archdeacon of Exeter, April 1865 to death; author of Proportion in Gothic architecture 1848; The principles of divine service 2 parts 1855–62 and 17 other books. d. 1 Northumberland terrace, Primrose hill, London 24 Feb. 1875 from effects of an accident at Chalk Farm railway station 18 Feb.
FREEMAN, Samuel. Engraver of portraits; worked chiefly in stipple; engraved numerous portraits and other illustrations for Rev. T. F. Dibdin’s Northern Gallery, Jones’s National Gallery and other books. d. 22 Jeffrey’s st. Camden Town, London 27 Feb. 1857 aged 84.
FREEMAN, William Deane. Called to bar in Ireland 1817; Q.C. 17 Aug. 1841; assistant barrister for Galway to death. d. Galway 13 Oct. 1852. Law magazine and law review ii, 236–40 (1857).
FREEMAN, Rev. Joseph John. b. Thames st. London 7 Oct. 1794; Congregational minister at Chelmsford 21 May 1816; minister for London missionary soc. in Madagascar 1826–35; minister at Walthamstow 1836; one of foreign secretaries of London Missionary Soc. 1841 and home sec. 1846; visited missionary stations in Guiana and Jamaica 1842–43; took charge of Malagasy refugees when in England 1848; visited mission churches at the Cape and in the Mauritius 1849–51; author of The Holy Bible in the Malagasy language 1830; A Tour to South Africa 1851 and 9 other works. d. Homburg 8 Sep. 1851. Congregational Year Book (1852) pp. 215–16; Waddington’s Congregational history v, 51–9 (1880).
FREER, John Charles. b. Malta 1802; appeared on stage at Portsmouth about 1824; played at theatres in east of London with success; kept a public house in Shoreditch which failed; went to Philadelphia; appeared at Park theatre, New York as Richard III. 18 May 1839; lessee of Richmond hill theatre, New York; stage manager of Chatham theatre, New York 10 years. Cut his throat at a coffee house, Bridge court, Cannon row, Westminster bridge, London 24 Dec. 1857. d. Westminster hospital same day. bur. Working 30 Dec. Theatrical times iii, 89 (1848), portrait; Era 27 Dec. 1857 p. 11.