John Frost
Chivalric Order Member
1828 – 1918
Who was John Frost?
Sir John Frost KCMG 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 the Transkei Rebellion. In 1874 he was elected a member of the House of Assembly. In politics he was associated 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
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