Early Life
Frere was born at Clydach House, Clydach, Monmouthshire, the son of Edward Frere, manager of Clydach Ironworks. He was the grandson of John Frere and a nephew of John Hookham Frere, known for anti-Jacobin activism and for his transliterations of Aristophanes. He was educated at the East India Company College the precursor of the later Haileybury and Imperial Service College.
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