Frederick Charlwood Frye

KPF 's father, Frederick Charlwood Frye , attended Saffron Walden Grammar School and worked as a clerk and grocer. During the late nineteenth century his grocery business did very well, expanding into a chain, and...

The Frye family was actively political throughout KPF 's formative years, mostly on behalf of the Liberal Party : her mother expected Kate to attend the North Kensington Women's Liberal Association meetings hosted in the...

KPF 's father's grocery business made the family prosperous in her youth: they maintained both a town and a country house, and generally employed three servants. Between 1906 and 1913, however, the family's prosperity deteriorated...