FROST, William Edward. b. Wandsworth, Surrey, Sep. 1810; student at the R.A. 1829; painter of portraits and allegorical pictures; A.R.A. Nov. 1846, R.A. 30 Dec. 1870 to June 1876 when he resigned; exhibited 77 pictures at R.A. and 33 at B.I. 1836–78. d. 40 Fitzroy sq. London 4 June 1877. Sandby’s History of Royal Academy (1862) ii, 219–21; Art Journal (1849) p. 184, portrait, (1857) pp. 5–7, (1877) pp. 234, 280; I.L.N. xxx, 419, 420 (1857), portrait, and lviii, 61, 63 (1871), portrait.
FROUDE, Ven. Robert Hurrell (son of Robert Froude of Walkhampton, Devon). Matric. from Oriel coll. Ox. 28 Jany. 1788 aged 17, B.A. 1792, M.A. 1795; R. of Denbury, Devon 1798 to death; R. of Dartington, Devon 1799 to death; archdeacon of Totnes 30 May 1820 to death. d. Dartington 23 Feb. 1859.
FROUDE, William (4 son of the preceding). b. Dartington parsonage 28 Nov. 1810; ed. at Westminster and Oriel coll. Ox., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1837; worked under I. K. Brunel on Bristol and Exeter railway 1837 to May 1844 when line was opened; lived at Paignton near Torquay 1859–67, at Chelston Cross, Torquay which he built, 1867 to death; conducted at the Admiralty establishment, Torquay, experiments on resistance and propulsion of ships 1870 to death; M.I.C.E. 1846, mem. of council 1877; F.R.S. 2 June 1870, royal medallist 1876. d. Admiralty house, Simon’s Town, Cape of Good Hope 4 May 1879. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lx, 395–404 (1880); Nature xx, 148–50, 169–73 (1879); Proc. of Royal Soc. xxix, pp. ii-vi (1879); Rev. T. Mozley’s Reminiscences (1882) ii, 14–17.
FRY, Francis (2 son of Joseph Storrs Fry 1769–1835). b. Westbury-on-Trym near Bristol 28 Oct. 1803; partner in firm of J. S. Fry & Sons, cocoa and chocolate manufactures, Bristol; a director of Bristol and Gloucester railway 1839–45, of Bristol and Exeter, South Devon and other railways; his collection of British bibles said to be finest in the world became property of the Bible Society, March 1890; F.S.A. 13 Feb. 1863; published A description of the Great Bible 1539, and the six editions of Cranmer’s Bible 1540 and 1541 printed by Grafton and Whitchurch 1865 and 11 other books. d. Tower house, Cotham, Bristol 12 Nov. 1886. A brief memoir of F. Fry. By his son T. Fry, privately printed (1887), portrait.
FULCHER, George Williams. Bookseller, stationer and printer at Sudbury, Suffolk; started the Sudbury Pocket Book 1825, edited it 1825 to death; author of The village paupers and other poems 1845; Life of Thomas Gainsborough 1856 and other books. d. Sudbury 19 June 1855 in 60 year.
FULFORD, Right Rev. Francis (2 son of Baldwin Fulford of Great Fulford, Devon). b. Sidmouth, Devon 3 June 1803; ed. at Tiverton gr. sch. and Ex. coll. Ox., fellow 1824–30; B.A. 1827, M.A. 1838, hon. D.D. 1850; R. of Trowbridge, Wilts. 1832–42; R. of Croydon, Cambs. 1842–45; min. of Curzon chapel, Hanover sq. London 1845–50; bishop of Montreal 19 July 1850 to death, consecrated in Westminster Abbey 25 July; metropolitan bishop of Canada 9 July 1860 to death; edited Colonial church chronicle and missionary journal 1848–50; author of A course of plain sermons on the Church of England 2 vols. 1837–40 and 10 other books. d. See house, Montreal 9 Sep. 1868. F. Taylor’s Last three bishops appointed by the Crown for the Anglican church of Canada (1870) 23–130, portrait; I.L.N. 24 Aug. 1850 p. 168, portrait, 29 Nov. 1862 pp. 576, 587, portrait.
FULFORD, John (brother of the preceding). b. 16 Feb. 1809; entered navy 1821; captain 1848; R.A. 1866; retired admiral 5 Aug. 1877. d. Bemerton, Salisbury 15 Feb. 1888.
FULLER, Charles Francis. Sculptor at Florence; exhibited 28 sculptures at the R.A. 1859–75. d. Florence 10 March 1875 aged 45.
FULLER, Francis. b. Coulsdon, Surrey 29 June 1807; surveyor to London, Brighton and South Coast railway 25 years; constructed line from Caterham Junction to Caterham at his own cost and without aid of act of parliament; promoted with Sir Henry Cole and Scott Russell the Great Exhibition of 1851; declined knighthood; managing director of Crystal Palace co. 1852; saw the race for the Derby at Epsom 1821–84, 64 years, a fact unparalleled in turf history; author of Alexandra Park 1873. d. 63 St. Aubyn’s, Hove, Brighton 27 May 1887. The Field 4 June 1887 p. 769; I.L.N. xix, 487, 508 (1851), portrait.
FULLER, Henry Peter. b. 1785; a surgeon in London 1807–59; a governor of St. George’s hospital 1817 to death, visiting apothecary there 1819 to death, raised in 1830 sum of £20,000 for rebuilding the hospital, where one of the wards is named after him. d. Sarratt hall, Rickmansworth, Herts. 28 Aug. 1866.