[1] Frans Last was born in Elmina to colonial administrator Friedrich Last and the Euro-African innkeeper Elisabeth Atteveld.

[8] Upon his return to the Dutch East Indies, Last was instructed on 27 June 1866 to draft a penal code for natives and non-Europeans in the Dutch East Indies, based on the penal code for Europeans adopted earlier that year.

In August 1869, Last was appointed president of the Council of Justice of Batavia, and in October 1872, he returned to the supreme court as Attorney General.

[1] Frans Last married Ida Catharina Wilhelmina Elisabeth Carlier on 13 October 1852 in Ambal, Kebumen [id].

[16][1] A carte de visite of Frans Last can be found in the photoalbum of John F. Loudon, which is kept in the print room of Leiden University.