Frank Asbury was born in Toronto and attended Queen Victoria P.S. and Parkdale C.I. He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1911.
Frank taught at Ridgetown H.S., Harbord C.I. and Sarnia C.&T.S. where he was principal from 1925 until 1945. He was also a senior mathematics inspector for the Ontario Department of Education. He served as president of the mathematics and physics section of O.E.A. in 1929, was a Life Member of O.E.A., and an O.M.C. representative to the O.A.T.M./O.M.C. amalgamation. He wrote the first history of O.A.T.M. for the period 1891-1960.
Ross Honsberger recalls some of the elegant solutions he submitted to problems in the Ontario Secondary School Mathematics Bulletin.