Background
Frost was born in Hobart, Tasmania and educated at Koonya and Margate state schools, but left school at 13.
Frost was born in Hobart, Tasmania and educated at Koonya and Margate state schools, but left school at 13.
He later worked at the Iron Blow mine near Queenstown. Frost ran unsuccessfully for the division of Franklin in the Tasmanian Legislative Assembly in 1928. When John Curtin came to power in 1941, he was appointed Minister for Repatriation and Minister in charge of War Service Homes.
He narrowly lost his seat at the 1946 election.
In 1948 Frost became Australian high commissioner to Ceylon, but this appointment was terminated in 1950 by the Menzies government.
He bought an orchard near Margate and in the late 1920s he was elected as a member of local Kingborough Council.