Background
Froggatt was born in 1920 at Birkenhead in Cheshire, the son of May and Leslie Froggatt, Snr., a merchant navy engineer
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Froggatt was born in 1920 at Birkenhead in Cheshire, the son of May and Leslie Froggatt, Snr., a merchant navy engineer
He was educated at Birkenhead Park School, where he captained the cricket and rugby teams and was school vice-captain.
In 1937, Froggatt was employed by the Asiatic Petroleum Company (later Royal Dutch ) as an accountant, attending night classes to improve his accounting skills. Upon the outbreak of World World War II in 1939, Froggatt intended to join the Royal Navy, but instead joined the Merchant Navy where he trained as a radio operator. He served aboard the freighter Centaur when it picked up German survivors of the battle between HMAS Sydney and German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran in November 1941.
Eighteen months later, Froggatt fell ill and was hospitalised in Melbourne.
As such, he was not on board Centaur when it was torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine. Froggatt remained in Melbourne following the end of the war, and rejoined Australia as an accountants
In 1947 he was posted to Singapore where he worked until 1954, with interim postings in Bangkok and Penang. He was posted to Egypt from 1955 to 1956, and was detained under house arrest for six months during the Suez Crisis.
As "s deputy general manager for Indonesia, he worked in Jakarta and Borneo, followed by senior roles in the company in the United States and Europe.
In 1969, Froggatt was appointed chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Australia. During his time as Chief Executive Officer, he was responsible for "s involvement in the North West Shelf Venture. He retired as Chief Executive Officer in 1980, but remained with the company as a non-executive director
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Married Jessie East. Grant in 1945.