Frederick Clapcott

Frederick Charles Clapcott, who died on 14 July 1941, was a New Zealand-born settler in Fiji who combined public life with sport. Born in New Zealand, he began work for the Colonial Sugar Refining Company at Nausori in 1894 and moved to Ba later that year, then left the company and bought the Yala Levu estate from it. He won the Northern constituency of Fiji's Legislative Council in the 1917 election, unseating the sitting member Henry Lamb Kennedy, was re-elected in 1920 and did not stand in 1923. In sport, he represented Fiji in the lawn bowls competition at the 1938 British Empire Games, taking part in the men's rinks (fours) event. He died at Ba.