Early Life
He was born in 1915.
Frost's introduction to aviation had begun when he was a teenager. At school in the early 1930s his Latin teacher A. Maitland Emmet had taken him up in a Bristol Fighter. John Frost had been born in Walton-on-Thames near London in 1915 and had showed an early interest in the sciences at St Edward's School, Oxford where he graduated with honours in mathematics, chemistry and physics.
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