1300 Frederick Frye

Constituency : Kensington  North  1892-5

Frederick  took  Kensington  North  from  the  Tories.

Frederick  was  in  a  partnership  that  owned  a  chain  of  grocery  stores  around  Greenwich. He  took  sole  control  in  1880  and  a  limited  company  in  1894. In  1891  he  founded  the  Federation  of  Grocer's  Associations  of  the  United  Kingdom. He  was  a  progressive  employer  who  operated  profit-sharing  schemes.  In  1889  he  was  elected  to  the  L.C.C.  as  a  Progressive.

Frederick  was  a  radical.

Frederick  was  defeated  in  1895. He  later  became  an  alderman  on  Kensington  Borough  Council. In  the  early  twentieth  century  Frederick's  business  failed  and  he  lived  in  straitened  circumstances.

Frederick's  daughter  Kate  became  a  suffragette.

He  died  in  1914  aged  68.