Frere, John Hookham, English politician and author, born in London, uncle of the preceding; he was a staunch supporter of Pitt, and in 1799 became Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs; a year later he was envoy to Lisbon, and subsequently minister to Spain; in 1821 he retired to Malta, where he devoted himself to scholarly pursuits, twice declining a peerage; in his early days he was a contributor to the Anti-Jacobin, and shares with his school-fellow Canning the authorship of the “Needy Knife-Grinder”; but he is best known by his fine translations of some of Aristophanes' plays (1769‒1841).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Frere, Sir Henry Bartle Edward * Fresco