Frederick was educated at Liverpool, and after taking the L.R.C.P. and L.R.C.S. at Edinburgh, qualified in 1881. He acted as junior house-surgeon at the Stanley Hospital, Liverpool, as house-surgeon of West Bromwich District Hospital, and as acting assistant-surgeon of His Majesty's prison, Liverpool. He then went into practice in Seaforth. In 1895 he became a member of the local council, and three years later its chairman, but resigned to take up the post of medical officer at the Waterloo-with-Seaforth urban district. He was also honorary physician to the Waterloo and District Hospital, and surgeon to the troops in charge of the Military Hospital at Seaforth Barracks, and to the Lancashire county police, and medical examiner to the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Frederick was a prominent Freemason, being a P.Pr.G.W. of West Lancashire and a P.M. of the Skelmersdale Lodge No 1380. He was a Captain to the Lancashire Artillery Volunteers, but resigned his commission 1907. He had only recently joined the R.A.M.C. as a temporary Captain. He died at his residence, Bedford House, Sandy Road, Seaforth, Liverpool.