hollywood: David Frost

Sunday, 1 July 2012

David Frost

He was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in 1970 and knighthood of the British Empire in the 1993 Queen's New Years Honors List for his services to broadcasting and journalism.Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith, pg. 172-173. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387. David Paradine Frost was born in Tenterden, Kent, on 7 April 1939 as the son of a Methodist minister ofHuguenot descent, the Rev. W. J. Paradine Frost, and his wife Mona, and with two elder sisters.^[1] While living inGillingham, Kent, he was taught in the Bible class of the Sunday school at his father's church (Byron Road Methodist) by David Gilmore Harvey, and subsequently started training as a Methodist local preacher, which he did not complete. He attended Barnsole Road Primary School in Gillingham, then Gillingham Grammar Schooland finally Wellingborough Grammar School