Thomas Frost, 1922 - 1923

Born in 1863 , Frost was a carpenter by trade. He first entered Wolverhampton Council as a Labour councillor in 1901 at the age of 38, and in 1917 became the first Labour chairman of the Free Library Committee, a position he held until 1919. In 1922 he became the first Labour mayor. Following his term of office, Frost remained a councillor and became the first Labour alderman in 1925. However in 1949, after the Conservatives regained a majority, Frost was removed from the aldermanic bench at the age of eighty-six.

GW Jones 1969 Borough Politics a Study of Wolverhampton Borough Council 1888-1964 (Macmillan, London) pp.143, 243, 252, 261-2, 265n.