Honor Frost

Scholar, explorer and underwater archaeologist
She studied at the Central School of Art, London, and the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford.

She worked as a designer for the Ballet Rambert, and finally became director of publications at the Tate Gallery

In the late 1940s, she began training at Cannes with the Club Alpin Sous-Marin.
Among other achievements, Honor Frost was the first to recognise, in 1959, that a wrecked ship off the coast of Turkey at Gelidonya, which contained a rich cargo of copper and tin ingots together with personal possessions of the crew, dated from the late Bronze Age and was early Phoenician. In 1971 the Sicilian authorities and the British School at Rome appointed Honor Frost to direct the excavation of a Punic warship in Marsala harbour off the coast of Sicily.

Among other works she wrote Under the Mediterranean (1963).

Honor Frost was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1969. In 1997 the French government awarded her a medal for pioneering submarine archaeology in Egypt, and in 2005 the British Sub-Aqua Club presented her with the Colin McLeod award for furthering international co-operation in diving.