Sir Edward Fry (1827-1918), a judge on the British Court of Appeal (1883-1892) and also an arbitrator on the International Permanent Court of Arbitration. He was a Quaker, son of Joseph Fry (1795-1879) and Mary Ann Swaine. Naval Battle of Navarino by Carneray 1827 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... Her Majestys Court of Appeal is the second most senior court in the English legal system (with only the judges of the House of Lords above it). ... The phrase Hague Tribunal can also be used to refer to ICTY. The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), also known as the Hague Tribunal is an international organization based in The Hague in the Netherlands. ... The Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers, or Friends, is a religious community founded in England in the 17th century. ... The Fry family was a prominent Bristol Quaker family involved in the chocolate business in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. ...

He was called to the bar in 1854, took silk in 1869 and became a judge in Chancery in 1877 (the same year he was knighted). He was raised to the Court of Appeal in 1877 and retired in 1892. Retirement from the court did not mean retirement from legal work. In 1897 he accepted an offer to preside over the royal commission on the Irish Land Acts. He also acted as an arbitrator in the Grimsby fishery dispute (1901) and between the London and North Western Railway Company and its employees (1906, 1907). The official portrait of former Canadian Prime Minister Kim Campbell, who was made a Queens Counsel as Justice Minister in 1992. ... Court of Chancery, London, late 18th century The Court of Chancery was one of the courts of equity in England and Wales. ... The Irish Question British Prime Minister William Gladstone had taken up the Irish Question in part to win the general election of 1868 by uniting the Liberal Party behind this single issue. ...

He was also involved in international law. In 1902 he acted as an arbitrator at The Hague between the United States and Mexico in the pious funds of California dispute. In 1904 he was the British legal assessor on the commission to investigate the Dogger Bank incident where the Russian navy accidentally attacked a British herring fleet in the North Sea. He was involved in the second Hague Conference (1907). In 1908/1909 he was an arbitrator between France and Germany over a case where France had seized deserters (including some German citizens) from German diplomatic protection. The Dogger Bank incident (also known as incident of Hull) was the assault on British trawlers at the Dogger Bank by the Russian Baltic Fleet in the night of October 21 to October 22, 1904. ...

Besides law he was on the council of University College London and interested in Zoology (he was elected to the Royal Society in 1883). University College London, commonly known as UCL, is one of the colleges that make up the University of London. ... The premises of the Royal Society in London (first four properties only). ...

He wrote two books on bryophytes, British Mosses (1892) and, with his daughter Agnes, The Liverworts: British and Foreign (1911). Bryophyte is a botanical term which refers to any member of the following divisions of the Plantae kingdom: Bryophyta (mosses) Anthocerophyta (hornworts) Hepatophyta (liverworts) Despite the similarity in name, a bryophyte does not exclusively imply a species of the division bryophyta. ...

Edward Fry married Mariabella Hodgkin, granddaughter of Luke Howard and they were the parents of among others: Luke Howard Luke Howard (November 28, 1772 – March 21, 1864) was a British meteorologist with broad interests in science. ...

• Joan Mary Fry (1862-1955) Quaker social reformer
• Roger Fry (1866-1934) - Artist, member of the Bloomsbury Group
• Agnes Fry (1868-1957)
• Isabel Fry (1869-1958) - educationist, social worker and reformer. Founded
• (Sara) Margery Fry (1874-1958) - penal reformer, principal of Somerville College (?-1931), founder of the Howard League
• Anna Ruth Fry (1876-1962) - pacifist and Quaker activist

Roger Eliot Fry (14 December 1866 - 9 September 1934) was an English artist and critic, and a member of the Bloomsbury group. ... The Bloomsbury Group or Bloomsbury Set or just Bloomsbury, as its adherents would generally refer to it, was an English group of artists and scholars that existed from around 1905 until around World War II. // History The elite group deficated as an informal social assembly of recent Cambridge University alumni... Somerville College, part of the University of Oxford, was one of the first womens colleges to be founded there. ...

Sources

• Edward Fry - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• A Social and Biographical History of British and Irish Field-Bryologists by Mark Lawley, 2006. Contains information on Edward Fry's interest in Bryology.
• AIM25: Institute of Education: Fry, Isabel (1869-1958) - contains information on her siblings also