Frank Templeton Prince (13 September 1912 – 7 August 2003) was a British poet and academic, known generally for his best-known poem Soldiers Bathing, written during the Second World War in 1942, which has been frequently included in anthologies.
His father Henry (Harry) Prince (formerly Prinz) was from the East End of London, of Dutch-Jewish descent, while his mother was Scottish.
In World War II he was involved in intelligence work at Bletchley Park.
[1] He married in 1943, and took an academic position after the war at the University of Southampton, where he settled.
[2] In work such as the Afterword on Rupert Brooke his interest in the metrical ideas of Robert Bridges is evident.