HOLY Cross College will welcome David Frost as its new principal at the start of the next academic year.

Mr Frost, who is also known as Daveth, is currently the acting principal of St David’s Catholic College in Cardiff.

He will take up his new post in August, when current principal Mike O’Hare begins his retirement.

Mr Frost was a pupil at King Edward’s School, Birmingham, and went to Durham University to study biology.

He was then sent by the Church of England to Oxford, where he studied theology and was later ordained.

He served in three north-eastern parishes —Cockerton in Darlington, Newton Aycliffe, and Dunston-on-Tyne.

Mr Frost joined the Catholic Church in 1992 and became a teacher of RE and member of the chaplaincy team at St David’s College.

He joined the college’s management team four years ago as associate principal for Catholic ethos and pastoral care, before becoming acting principal in May last year.

Mr Frost is married to Judith, a physicist who works in publishing. They have a son, Jago, whose name is Cornish for James.

The names Jago and Daveth indicate Mr Frost’s family connections with Cornwall and his research interest in the language and history of the Duchy.