FRY, SIR Edward, English jurist: b. Bristol, 4 Nov. 1827; d. Failand House, near Bristol, 19 Oct. 1918. He was educated at Bristol Col lege and at University College, London. He became a barrister in 1854, and Queen's coun sellor and bencher of Lincoln's Inn 1809. He presided over the Royal Commission on the Irish Land Acts 1897-98; acted as conciliator in the South Wales colliery dispute 1898. He was legal assessor to the International Commission on the North Sea incident 1904-05; arbitrator between the United States and Mexico in the Pious Funds case 1902, and between France and Germany on the Casa Blanca incident 1909, and in many other local .and international cases. From 190() to 1912 he was a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague, and in 1907 was the first British plenipotentiary to The Hague Peace Conference. His pub lished works include
FRY, Elisabeth Gurney, English philan thropist and Prison reformer: b. Norwich, Eng land, 21 May 1780; d. Ramsgate, Kent, 12 Oct. 1845. Brought up a Quaker by her family she did not adapt her mode of life to that pre scribed by the more rigid and orthodox of the sect, till 1798, being then induced to do so by the preaching of William Savery, an American Friend traveling in England on a religious mis sion. This change was consummated by her marriage in 1800 with Joseph Fry, himself a In 1810 Mrs. Fry became an occasional preacher and thenceforward devoted herself to offices of the purest benevolence and piety. Owing to her unwearied exertions, im portant reforms were effected in the prison sys tems, not only of Great Britain, but also in those of France and Germany. Consult
'Memoirs' by Thompson (1846) ; Corter (1853).
FRY, James Barnet, American military of
b. Carrollton, Green County, Ill., 22 Feb. 1827; d. Newport, R. I., '11 July 1894. He was graduated at the United States Military Acad emy in 1847, and after serving as assistant in structor at West Point, he was assigned to the 3d Artillery, then in Mexico where he remained I till the close of the war. In 1863 he was ap pointed provost marshal-general of the United States, with headquarters at Washington, D. C.; and in 1864 was promoted brigadier-general. He was brevetted major-general in the regular army, 13 March 1865, for "faithful, meritorious, and distinguished services,* and after the war served in the divisions of the Pacific, the South, the Missouri and the Atlantic, till 1:2, when he was retired. He was the author of 'The His tory of Brevets' ; 'The Army under Buell.' FRY, William Henry, American composer and journalist: b. Philadelphia, August 1815; d. Santa Cruz, W. I., 21 Dec. 1864. He early showed a singular aptitude for music, and in 1835 produced four overtures which were per formed by the Philharmonic Society of Philadel phia, whopresented the composer with an hon orary medal. He next wrote the operas of 'Aurelia' and the