Richard Frame and John Frost's Grave Stone
Richard Frame and John Frost's Grave Stone On Richard Frame's regular trips to Newport Museum and Art gallery he would always pause at the cabinet that housed the Chartist Collection. It included a photograph of John Frost’s house in Stapleton, near Bristol, where he went to live with his wife and daughter when he was finally allowed to return to Britain in 1856. John Frost was born on 25th May 25 1784, in Newport , Monmouthshire, and died on 27 July 1877, near Bristol . He was a hero of Chartism which was the first mass political reform movement and was leader of the Newport rising of November 4, 1839, in which about 20 Chartists were killed by troops. He was a prosperous draper and tailor in Newport and served as a member of Newport’s first elected town council from 1835, and as a magistrate from 1836–39 and mayor from 1836–37. He was a delegate from Monmouthshire to the Chartist ...