Prince Frederick Victor Duleep Singh, MVO, TD, FSA (23 January 1868 – 15 August 1926), also known as Prince Freddy, was the youngest son of Sir Duleep Singh, the last Maharaja of the Sikh Empire.
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Early life
Prince Frederick was born in London as the third son (the second surviving after the oldest son died on the first day after his birth) of Sir Duleep Singh and Bamba Müller, the former Maharaja and Maharani Duleep of Lahore.
He was educated at Eton and Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he read history (B.A. 1890; M.A. 1894). At Cambridge, he was a member of the Pitt Club.
He was deeply interested in archaeology, contributing articles to various periodicals and became a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. He wrote Portraits in Norfolk Houses (1929, two volumes) alongside Rev. Edmund Farrer, and with Farrer and his friend Charles Partridge compiled and published Portraits in Suffolk Houses. He was East Anglia representative of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings and reported on about 50 historic building cases for it. Such was his passion for ancient buildings, under his Deed of Gift of the Ancient House, Thetford to the Town Council in 1921, he stipulated that should anyone wish to carry out any structural alterations to the building, the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings must be consulted first.