Frank, Bishop of Zanzibar is the classic biography of Frank Weston, one of the most arresting and uncompromising figures of the early twentieth-century Anglican Church. Written by H. Maynard Smith, this work traces the life, character, and convictions of the bishop whose sacramental theology, missionary zeal, and fearless preaching made him both revered and controversial in his own day.

From Weston’s formation within the Catholic Revival to his episcopal ministry in East Africa, the biography presents a portrait of a man who refused to separate worship from justice, doctrine from action, or the Eucharist from the life of the world. Weston’s insistence that the sacramental life of the Church must shape social responsibility—most famously expressed in his uncompromising sermons—emerges here not as rhetoric, but as the outworking of a deeply coherent faith.

Smith writes with clarity and restraint, allowing Weston’s words, decisions, and conflicts to speak for themselves. The result is neither hagiography nor polemic, but a sympathetic and searching account of a bishop whose theology was lived as well as preached.

This biography remains essential reading for those interested in the Catholic Revival, Anglican missionary history, and the enduring challenge posed by Frank Weston’s vision of a Church formed at the altar and sent into the world.