Career
Frye took sole control of the company in 1880. In 1892 the business was renamed Leverett & Frye, and by 1894, when it became a limited company, it had 50 stores in England and Ireland, concentrating on opening shops in newly developed suburbs. Frye became president of the Metropolitan Grocers Association and in 1891 helped found the Federation of Grocer"s Associations of the United Kingdom.
Frye was a progressive employer, operating a profit-sharing scheme with his employees and was on the Radical wing of the Liberal Party.
He stepped down from the council at the 1892 elections, having been nominated as Liberal candidate to contest the parliamentary seat of Kensington North. He later became an alderman of Kensington Borough Council.
He retired to Worthing on the Sussex coast, where he died aged 68.
