Maurice Frost

FROST, Maurice. b. Woodridings, Pinner, Middlesex, 22 June 1888; d. Deddington, Oxfordshire, 25 December 1961. He never knew his father, Maurice Isaac Scott, a clerk, who married Bessie or Eliza, née Wallace. On 8 January 1888, his father had been run over by a goods train at Pinner (now Hatch End) station and killed instantly. Maurice attended Reading School as a boarder, entered Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, as a sizar (a student receiving assistance from the college) in 1907, earned a BA in theology in 1910, and was ordained deacon in 1911 and priest in 1912. He was curate of Buckingham (1911-16), then of Bladon with Woodstock (1916–24). In 1924 he was inducted as vicar of...