Com. on the Irish Land
Acts, 1897-1898; Chairman of the Court of Arbitration under the
Metropolitan Water Act, 1902; member of the Permanent Court of
International Arbitration at the Hague; author of a "Treatise on
the Specific Performance of Contracts," of "British Mosses," and
"The Mycetozoa."--["Who's Who."]
_fa bro_, Francis FRY (1803-1886), member of the firm of J.S. Fry and
Co., Bristol; a great authority on bibliography.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
_bro_, Right Hon. Lewis FRY (b. 1832), M.P. for Bristol, 1878-1885;
N. Bristol, 1885-1892, and 1895-1900.--["Who's Who."]
_bro_, Joseph Storrs FRY, has maintained and extended a large
manufacturing business, and taken an active part in philanthropic
work.
_fa fa fa_, Joseph FRY (1728-1787), practised medicine in Bristol,
afterwards manufactured cocoa and chocolate; started type-founding
business with William Pine, 1764.--["Dic. N. Biog."]
_fa fa bro_, Edmund FRY (1754-1835), M.D. of Edinburgh; devoted his
life to the business of type-founding, and to the philological
studies connected with it.--["Dic. N. Biog."]
_wife_, Mariabella, nee HODGKIN, _dau_ of the historian.
Francis #GALTON# (b. 1822), D.C.L., Hon. Sc.D. (Camb.), F.R.S.,
traveller, anthropologist and biometrician; author of many works
and memoirs on these and analogous subjects, including
meteorology, heredity, identification by fingerprints; latterly a
promoter of the study of Eugenics. Gold medal R. Geog. Soc.,
1853, for travels in Damaraland, S. Africa; Royal medal, 1886,
and Darwin medal, 1903, of the Royal Soc., for applications of
measurement to human faculty; Huxley medal of the Anthropol.
Institute, 1901.--["Ency. Brit.," and "Who's Who."]
_fa si_, SCHIMMELPENNINCK (1778-1856), Mrs. Mary Anne, author of
various works, mostly theological, and on the Port Royalists and
Moravians.--["Dic. N. Biog."]
_fa fa fa_, Samuel GALTON (1720-1799), cultured Quaker
philanthropist, contractor and banker.--[See life of above M.A.S.,
and the "Annual Register."]
_fa me 1/2 bro_, Robert Barclay ALLARDICE (1779-1854), commonly known
as Capt. BARCLAY of Ury, pedestrian, noted for his walking feats,
agriculturist.--["Dic. N. Biog."]
_me fa_, Erasmus DARWIN, M.D., F.R.S.--See DARWIN.
_me 1/2 bro son_, Charles Robert DARWIN, F.R.S., the naturalist.--See
DARWIN.
_si son_, Edward G. WHELER (b. 1850), a founder and president of
the Land Agents' Societ
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