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== Biography ==

Frank Law was born on 21/01/1912 at home in Bacup, Lancashire. His education at secondary level was at Bury and Rawtenstall Grammar School, before moving to King Edward VII School, Lytham, when his parents moved to that area in 1927. His university education was at the Faculty of Technology in the University of Manchester where he graduated with a First Class Honours in Civil Engineering. He was elected AMICE IN 1938 and transferred to full Membership in 1956.

His war service was with the Royal Marine Engineers with the rank of Captain. His unit built a small concrete dam near Corpach in Scotland  but his service concluded with a period in the Far East working with floating docks.  In civilian life he returned to the Borough Surveyor’s Department of Blackpool Corporation which he had joined in 1935, key tasks being the design of elements of the multi-story car park over the Talbot Road bus station and the Anchorsholme Sewage Outfall pumping station; he had been largely responsible for the Main Drainage Scheme plans prior to war service.

In 1946 he secured the position of Chief Assistant Engineer at the Fylde Water Board headquarters in Blackpool. On the retirement in the 1950s of the Board Engineer, Mr Apted,  he was appointed as successor, serving an area dominated by summer holiday resort water demands.

In private life he was fully involved in the St Annes Baptist Church, where he was baptised as a believer in 1929 and after his marriage there to Freda Russell in 1938 they resided in Blackpool and became members at the Baptist Tabernacle in Springfield Road where he was appointed as a deacon in 1942 before joining the RME.    His son Frank Law Jr. also became an engineer and worked for many years at the Institute of Hydrology, Wallingford.