Rev Frederick Ledger Frost (1887–1957) was a New Zealand

New Zealand

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 politician of the Labour Party

New Zealand Labour Party

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.

He represented the New Plymouth

New Plymouth (New Zealand electorate)

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 electorate from the 1938 general election

New Zealand general election, 1938

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 to 1943, when he was defeated by the National candidate, Rev Ernest Aderman

Ernest Aderman

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, who was also a Christian minister.

Frost was born in Northumberland, England

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 and from the ages of 13 to 24 was a coal-miner in England and Australia. He came to New Zealand in 1911, and worked in the Millerton

Millerton, New Zealand

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 mines before becoming a Methodist minister. In World War I he was a soldier, then a Chaplain-Captain. He was for 14 years a Methodist minister and City Missioner in Auckland before changing to the Anglican Church in 1924, and was a Vicar in Taradale. He had stood for New Plymouth unsuccessfully in 1931 and 1935.