Frank
was
born on March 24th 1897, and was at K.C. between 1910 and 1914, and
died on April 18th 1979.
Frank
was
born on March 24th 1897, and was at K.C. between 1910 and 1914, and
died on April 18th 1979.
His career at school was unremarkable – he won Mathematics and Dux Prizes, played for the Cricket 2nd XI and was goalkeeper in the 1913 team that was only once defeated – and revealed no portents of the later Governor of K.C. who proposed and initiated the Friends of Kent College, an institution that has been of enormous benefit to the school, and in which can be seen both visionary and man of action.
He joined the Inns of Court O.T.C. in July 1914 and began his career in the Indian Army in 1917, serving in India, Afghanistan, Iraq and Persia. He was in command of the 39th Indian Division and, later, the Secunderabad District from 1945 to 1947 when he was involved in arranging for the redistribution of Hindu and Moslem regiments before the handover – a task, he later lamented, not given sufficient time to be carried out effectively. As Major-General he was awarded the O.B.E. in 1942, the C.I.E. in 1945 and the C.B. in 1947.
A man of distinguished bearing, he always showed himself courteous, modest and charming – the epitome of Chaucer’s “verray, parfit, gentil knyght.”