Draft:Kingdon Tregosse Frost

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Kingdon Tregosse Frost was a British archeologist that worked with the renowned Petrie in Egypt and fougth in Wold War I as an army Lieutenant.

Biography

Kingdon Tregosse Frost was born on the 12th of March 1877 at Tamar Terrace, Launceston, Cornwall. His father was Denis Tregosse Frost, Solicitor, and his mother was Sophia Margaret Frost, formerly Messenger. Kingdon had two younger brothers, Oswald Miles Tregosse (born 5th June 1880) and Russell Tregosse (born September quarter 1886).

Kingdon was educated at a college in Bath before going up to Lincoln College, Oxford University, in 1896. He then moved to Brasenose College as a Junior Hume Exhibitioner in 1897. He achieved a 2nd in Classical Moderations (first public examination for Bachelor degree in Classics) in 1898, rowed in the First Torpid and College Eight in 1899 and took a BA 3rd class in Literae Humaniores (Classics and Philosophe) in 1900. Frost was on a travelling studentship at the British School of Archaeology at Athens in 1900-1, during which he excavated in Greece and travelled in the Near East, including Mesopotamia. From 1902 to 1904 Frost was a Tutor and Lecturer at Isleworth Training College, Middlesex. He re-entered the books at Brasenose in 1903, entering the Bachelor of Letters in June 1904. He was awarded the MA in 1905 for his work on Greek Sculpture with a special attention on Greek Athletics but his certificate would only be issued in December 1907.

In 1904, he traveled to Egypt to work on the Sinai Expedition of Sir Williams Flinders Petrie during the winter of 1904-5. For several weeks, he shared a tent with the french Capitain Raymond Weill. Petrie was impressed by Frost and spoke highly of the man. In one of his private memos (MSS 1.23), Petrie writes that Frost is "the most valuable companion" on the expedition, adding further "Frost is much more than I expected in thoughtfulness & kindness, & willingness for all emergencies".. The Royal Geographical Society made him a Fellow in 1905, sponsored by two of the most prominent people in the archeological world at that time, John L Myres. and Denis J. Hogarth.

From 1905 to 1908 he worked in the Ministry of Education in Egypt. He returned to England to work part-time from November 1908 to August 1909 in the Bodleian Library in Oxford.

He was found out to be the author of an anonymous article entitled The Lost Continent in The Times (of London) dated to the 19th of February 1909 in which he outlined the parallels between Atlantis and the Minoan empire. According to William M. Dunlop, President of the Ulster Archeology Society, Frost's connection between Atlantis and the Minoan civilisation is "the least implausible account of the origin of the legend"

From 1909 onwards, Kingdon was a Lecturer on Archaeology and Ancient History at Queens University in Belfast, Ireland. He was given the responsibility of creating a new Department of Archaeology and Ancient History within the School of Classics.

Frost enlisted in the British army in September 1912, having been a member of the Queen’s University Officer Training Corps. He joined the 3rd (Special Reserve) Battalion Cheshire Regiment. He was promoted to Lieutenant in June 1913. Just before World War 1 broke out, He took part in the excavations of Haraga (between the Nile river and the Fayoum basin) by Reginald Engelbach in 1913-14. When war broke out, he was attached to the 1st Battalion Cheshire Regiment. Frost’s youngest brother, Captain Russell Tregosse Frost, also served with the Cheshire Regiment. Frost's younger brother, Major Oswald Miles Tregosse Frost, served with the Dorsetshire Regiment, attached to Royal Engineers, 1st Dorset Regiment.

Lieutenant Frost was killed on the 25th of August 1914 after the Battle of Mons (Belgium). Indeed, after a battle had ended, he went to identify retiring troops, only to find out they were German soldiers. After finally managing to kill him the Germans said he was “fighting like a demon, having refused to surrender”. For his bravery, they gave him a proper burial. He is now buried at the Wiheries Communal Cemetery (Grave/Memorial reference: Sp. Mem. III. A. 7.).

External links

• Grandadswar's article on Kingdon Tregosse Frost

• Kingdon Tregosse Frost: First Lecturer in Archaeology at the Queen's University of Belfast on JSTOR

• Frost's profile page on the Brunel University of London website