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Authorised form of nameFry; Sir; Edward (1827 - 1918)
Dates1827 - 1918
NationalityBritish
Place of birthUnion Street, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
Date of birth04 November 1827
Place of deathFailand, Gloucestershire
Date of death18/10/1918
OccupationBarrister
ActivityEducation:
Oxford University
Career:
Called to the Bar (1854); QC (1869); Judge of the High Court of Justice (1877-1883); Lord Justice of Appeal (1883-1892)
Honours:
Kt 1877; GCB 1907
Memberships:
FLS; FSA; FBA
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election13/12/1883
RelationshipsSon of Joseph Fry of Frenchay and his wife Mary Ann, daughter of Edward Swaine of Reading; married (06 April 1859) Mariabella, daughter of John Hodgkin, Barrister, of Lewes
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
References:
Vanity Fair 30 May 1891
Notes:
Certificate of a Candidate of the privileged class for Election
CodeNA1150
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1883/17Fry, Sir Edward: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/Maull/001572Fry, Sir Edwardnd
NLB/7/124Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons6 December 1892
NLB/12/152Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to the Right Honorable Sir Edward Fry, Fellow of the Royal Society 18 December 1895
NLB/14/423Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Michael Foster, Secretary, Royal Society8 March 1897
NLB/24/515Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Edward Fry, Fellow of the Royal Society29 May 1902
NLB/24/480Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Edward Fry, Fellow of the Royal Society23 May 1902
NLB/23/1/853Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Edward Fry, Fellow of the Royal Society4 February 1902
NLB/24/70Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to The Right Honorable Sir Edward Fry, Fellow of the Royal Society24 February 1902
NLB/24/563Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to The Right Honorable Sir Edward Fry, Fellow of the Royal Society3 June 1902
NLB/31/814Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to the Right Honourable Sir Edward Fry, Fellow of the Royal Society, Failand House, Failand near Bristol 20 November 1905
NLB/31/902Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Edward Fry, Fellow of the Royal Society, Failand House, Failand, near Bristol4 December 1905
NLB/40/509Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to The Right Honourable, Sir Edward Fry KCB, FRS 18 June 1909
NLB/55/887Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to unknown correspondent21 October 1918
IM/Maull/001571Fry, Sir Edwardnd
NLB/23/1/818Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to the Right Honourable Sir Edward Fry, Fellow of the Royal Society29 January 1902
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