Frank Handford was an English rugby union international who played on four occasions for his country and was part of the first official British Isles team that toured South Africa in 1910.

[6] He was a stalwart of the Lancashire County side playing from 1906 through till the return season of 1918 after the Great War.

During his period of study at the Aspatria Agricultural College he played Rugby union for Cumberland County on four occasions.

He served in the Cheshire Yeomanry, Machine Gun Corps during the First World War rising to the rank of sergeant.

Perhaps due to his earlier Lions Tour in 1910, he is recorded as having emigrated to South Africa at some time after 1919.