abstract:Frank Robert Welsh (12 April 1871 – 28 December 1959) was an Australian politician who represented the Western Australian Legislative Assembly seat of Pilbara from 1933 until 1939, and one of the three Legislative Council seats for North Province from 1940 until 1954. He was a member of the Nationalist Party until 1945, when the party merged into the Liberal Party.
Owen's tragic tale forms part of a rich story of Welsh boxing in the USA that has featured the likes of Jim Driscoll, Freddie Welsh, Jimmy Wilde, Frank Moody, Tommy Farr, and, more recently, Joe Calzaghe.