Frank Hird

Frank Hird, painted by Henry Scott Tuke for Lord Ronald Gower

Frank Hird (1873–1937) was a journalist and later author of several books, including a biography of the explorer H M Stanley. He was the companion and lover, and later adopted son, of the sculptor and writer Lord Ronald Gower.

Lord Ronald met Frank Hird in 1893, when Hird, then secretary to the Parliamentary Counsel Lord Thring, was suffering from rheumatic fever. In 1898 Frank, by then working for the Morning Post, accepted Lord Ronald's invitation to live with him as his adopted son, and they stayed together until Lord Ronald's death in 1916.

Frank Hird shares Lord Ronald's grave in St Paul's Churchyard, Rusthall.