[1] Frank Weston was born on 13 September 1871 in South London, the fourth son and fifth child of a tea broker.

[8] Weston had earlier applied to join the Universities' Mission to Central Africa (UMCA) but had been turned down because of poor health.

When Archdeacon Woodward of the UMCA came to stay at St Matthew's he encouraged Weston to apply again, this time his health was good enough for the missions.

[13] A staunch Anglo-Catholic, Weston was the chaplain and then principal of St Andrew's College,[14] additionally serving as chancellor of Zanzibar Cathedral from 1904 to 1908, before being ordained to the episcopate in 1908.

[16] Weston delivered the concluding address of the Second Anglo-Catholic Congress of 1923,[17] in which he urged the participants to "Go out and look for Jesus in the ragged, in the naked, in the oppressed and sweated, in those who have lost hope, in those who are struggling to make good.

It stemmed from a conference at Kikuyu where representatives from many Christian churches in East Africa, mainly in the more evangelical Anglican dioceses of Mombasa and Uganda, discussed how to repel the perceived threat from non-Christian groups.

"The Black Slaves of Prussia" is an open letter to General Smuts inveighing against proposals to hand territory to the post-war German Empire and the consequences in particular on those who had fought for the British.

In the First World War, Weston served with distinction during the conflict, being Mentioned in Despatches in 1916 and awarded an OBE for his role as a major commanding the Zanzibar Carrier Corps.