| Freddie Frith OBE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Frith demonstrating a 1930s Manx Norton at the Vintage Motor Cycle Club's Founder's Day rally, race meeting and parade gathering, 27 April 1969 at Mallory Park | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | British | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | Frederick Lee Frith May 30, 1909 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | May 24, 1988 (aged 79) Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Frederick Lee Frith OBE (30 May 1909 – 24 May 1988)[1][2] was a British Grand Prix motorcycle road racing world champion.[3] A former stonemason and later a motor cycle retailer in Grimsby,[4] he was a stylish rider and five times winner of the Isle of Man TT. Frith was one of the few to win TT races before and after the Second World War.[5] He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1950 Birthday Honours.[6]
- ^ England and Wales births Retrieved 17 June 2015
- ^ England and Wales deaths Retrieved 17 June 2015
- ^ "Freddie Frith career statistics at MotoGP.com". Archived from the original on 27 August 2018. Retrieved 18 May 2009.
- ^ Motorcycle Sport, UK monthly magazine, August 1978, p.296 Freddie Frith Limited, official advert. The latest and greatest shaft drive motorcycles from Honda & BMW. 119 Victoria Street Grimsby. Accessed 17 June 2015
- ^ Keig, Stanley Robertson (1975). The Keig Collection: six hundred photographs from the Manx House of Keig of T.T. riders and their machines from 1911 to 1939, vol 1. Bruce Main-Smith & Co.pp.28-29 ISBN 0-904365-05-0
- ^ British Empire: "No. 38929". The London Gazette (Supplement). 2 June 1950. p. 2787.