Frank William North

Frank William North (23 June 1871 – 17 May 1925) was a Church of England clergyman who spent most of his career in the countries of Russia and Finland.

Early in the First World War, he held a military service in his church, following a march through the main streets of central Moscow, a demonstration of British solidarity with Russia in the wartime Alliance.

Mrs North's uncle, Edward Birse, a business man in Russia, was an assistant to the British diplomat and agent R. H. Bruce Lockhart at the time of the Revolution.

[7] In the final months of 1919, North gave all the help he could to a group of Royal Navy sailors, led by Lieutenant L. E. S. Napier, captured during the British campaign in the Baltic and being held at Andronievsky Monastery, which had been converted into a prison.

[8] On 12 February 1920, an agreement was signed for an exchange of prisoners and others wishing to return home,[7] and North took on the task of acting as Registrar for the evacuation of British residents.

[10] The evacuation proceeded in May 1920 by the SS Dongola, which took North, his wife, his son, and most of the British subjects in his flock from Helsingfors to Southampton, arriving there on 22 May.