 Frederick Richard Simms' first wife was Austrian, his second, married 1910, was Mabel Louise, daughter of cotton merchant Joseph Worsley and they had two daughters, one of which was Rosemary Mabel who married the Artist Dennis Ramsay.He was educated in Germany and London and at the "Polytechnischer Verein" in Berlin after completing an apprenticeship with "AG fur Automatischen Verkauf" in Hamburg and Berlin.In a 1907 trip to the Alps, Simms discovered a waterfall near the village of Holzgau, now called the Simmswasserfall.