Charles Frodsham

Charles Frodsham ( born April 15, 1810 in London, † 1871) was an English chronometer maker.

Already in 1830 he filed a marine chronometer for consideration in the Royal Greenwich Observatory and scored a second price. Since 1834 Frodsham was a member of the Royal Society. He took over the company in 1843 John Arnold & Co, London.

Frodsham was for a time Vice- President of the British Horological Institute and in 1845 a member of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers. 1854 he was appointed Royal Court Clockmaker and purveyors to the court. A year later, he was Master of the Clockmakers Company.

A clock by Frodsham was the official timekeeper at the foundation of Australia in 1788 by the British. The clock can be visited at the Royal Observatory in Sydney.

The family Charles Frodsham & Co. is still purveyor to the British Royal Family.