Frank Parker Crosse MC[1] (24 October 1897 – 15 March 1979) was a British soldier and Church of England clergyman who became Dean of Grahamstown in South Africa, and was styled The Very Reverend Frank Crosse.
Educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst,[2] early in the First World War Crosse was commissioned as a Second lieutenant into the South Staffordshire Regiment and in 1916 was awarded the Military Cross for conspicuous gallantry.[3]
After the War he trained for the priesthood at Lincoln Theological College, was ordained deacon in 1923[4] and after a curacy in Bolsover he was vicar at Derry Hill, then at Branksome; and was later Rector of Barlborough[5] and Morton.[6] In 1934 he was appointed as Dean of Grahamstown Cathedral,[2][7][8] also becoming its Archdeacon and Rural Dean.