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  Elizabeth Fry
Fry and Joseph Gurney now went on a tour of British prisons in order to obtain the evidence needed to persuade the government to introduce further legislation.
Fry was strongly criticised for playing this role and she was attacked in the press for neglecting her home and family.
In 1824 Fry took a holiday in Brighton where she was shocked by the large number of beggars in the street.
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  Fry - LoveToKnow 1911
Joseph Fry, however, is best remembered as the founder of the great Bristol firm of J. Fry and Sons, chocolate manufacturers.
On the death of Joseph Storrs Fry his three sons, Joseph (1795-1879), Francis, and Richard (1807-1878) became partners in the firm, the control being mainly in the hands of Francis Fry (1803-1886).
Francis Fry died in 1886, and his son Francis Fry and nephew Joseph Storrs Fry carried on the business, which in 1896 was for family reasons converted into a private limited company, Joseph Storrs Fry being chairman and all the directors members.
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 Elizabeth Fry
Elizabeth Fry, born at Norwich on May 21, 1780, was the daughter of wealthy banker and merchant, John Gurney.
Fry was no longer able to travel but she still kept in contact with prison officials to monitor improvements.
Representing Fry as an angel, the major goal of the article was to inform readers, briefly, on the life of Elizabeth Fry and the contributions she made to prison reform.
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 fry - pafg07.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Mary Margaret Noble (Joseph Noble, Lewis Noble, Sarah Fry, Thomas, Joseph, Joseph) was born in 1831 in Indiana.
Sarah Noble (Joseph Noble, Lewis Noble, Sarah Fry, Thomas, Joseph, Joseph) was born on 17 Feb 1838 in Illinois.
Joseph Edward Noble "Edward" (Joseph Noble, Lewis Noble, Sarah Fry, Thomas, Joseph, Joseph) was born on 24 Aug 1849.
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 fry - pafg03.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
James Fry (Joseph, Joseph) was born in 1718 in Prince George's County, MD. He died 1774 - 1790 in Anson County, NC.
Joseph Fry was born on 26 Jan 1746.
Eleanor Fry was born on 12 Sep 1764.
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 Elizabeth Fry
Elizabeth Fry (1780 - October 12, 1845) was a philanthropist.
See was born at Earlham[?] in Norfolk, England to an old Quaker family.
Circa 2002 she was depicted on the Bank of England five pound note.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/el/Elizabeth_Fry.html   (167 words)

  
 Fry Family (Chocolate) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Joseph Fry founded a chocolate company called Fry, Vaughan and Co. in Bristol.
Joseph Fry and Co., the typefoundry, was continued by Joseph Fry's son, Edmund Fry (1754–1835) and renamed Edmund Fry and Co. Edmund Fry had two sons who survived to adulthood: Windover Fry (1797–1835) and Arthur Fry (1809–1878).
Sir Edward Fry (1827–1918), a judge on the British Court of Appeal.
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 Elizabeth Fry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elizabeth Gurney Fry was born in Norwich, Norfolk, England to a Quaker family.
Fry returned in 1816 and was eventually able to found a prison school for the children who were imprisoned with their parents.
Fry died at Ramsgate in 1845 and her remains were buried in the Friends's burial ground at Barking.
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 Elizabeth Fry
Fry discovered 300 women and their children, huddled together in two wards and two cells.
Fry nurses wore their own uniform and were expected to tend to their patients spiritual, as well as their physical needs.
Elizabeth Fry - Elizabeth Fry, born at Norwich on May 21, 1780, was the daughter of wealthy banker and merchant, John Gurney.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for fry
Fry's first major success was The Lady's Not for Burning (1949), a wry comedy set in the Middle Ages in which
Fries originated the modern classification of fungi and lichens.
Fry, Elizabeth (Gurney) 1780-1845, English prison reformer and philanthropist.
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 Joseph Fry : MyFonts
Punchcutter and typefounder, who in 1764 with William Pine, a printer, opened the Fry Letter Foundry in Bristol.
The copies of Caslon were so good, that they were advertised as being interchangeable with the original, a claim that upset the Caslons so much that their 1785 specimen was prefaced with a bitter denunciation.
Fry had wide business interests, one being Fry’s Chocolates.
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 Descendants of Joseph C. Fry
Joseph C. Fry survived Gettysburg, only to die in October at Bristoe Station, VA. Only the top of the letter is written by me. I received this transcription from John Shradrach Frye, teacher at Union Pines H. in Cameron.
JOSEPH C.6 FRY (ABSOLOM5, JAMES4, JOSEPH3, JOSEPH2, JOSEPH1) was born 1835 in Moore Co. N.C., and died October 15, 1863 in Hospital, Petersburg, Virginia.
Fry was a member of Co. H, 26th N.C. Regt., in the War Between the States and died from wounds received in battle.
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 Elizabeth Fry Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Elizabeth Fry was born into a happy, prosperous family, the Gurneys, at Norwich in eastern England, blighted only by the early death of her mother.
Fry was in her teens in 1798 when an American member of the Society of Friends attacked the luxurious "gayness" of the local Quakers and awakened in Fry a sense of God that began her conversion to a strict Quakerism.
Despite her limitations, Elizabeth Fry deserves to be remembered as a genuinely good woman, as her contemporaries acknowledged, and a much wiser one than the men who belittled her as a naive amateur realized.
www.bookrags.com /biography/elizabeth-fry   (1655 words)

  
 Elizabeth Fry
Elizabeth Fry was a Quaker who became famous for her work to reform the prison system in Britain in the early nineteenth century.
Joseph Fry may have been dull, but she was fortunate to find a husband in those days who was willing for his wife to take up work outside the home and who supported her in the things she did.
Elizabeth Fry arranged for them to be taken in closed carriages to protect them from the stones and jeers of the crowds, and promised to go with them to the docks.
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 John Daniel Fry - desc07 - Generated by Family Ties Deluxe Edition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Jesse FRY (Samuel, Abraham, John Daniel) was born 4 Jan 1820 in Tuscarawas Count, Gnadenhutten, Ohio.
Joseph FRY (Samuel, Abraham, John Daniel) was born 29 Oct 1832 in Tuscarawas Count, Gnadenhutten, Ohio.
Elizabeth Ellen FRY was born in Dover, Ohio.
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 Elizabeth Gurney Fry (1780-1845), Quaker Prison Reformer - QuakerInfo.com
In the summer of 1799, Joseph Fry, a shy plain Friend from a wealthy Quaker family, came to visit her family.
Fry was so well known and respected that her work received support from Queen Victoria, and the king of Prussia visited her.
Fry's brother Joseph John Gurney stepped in and took over her husband's business arrangement, arranging for his debts to be paid.
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 WOMEN IN CORRECTIONS: Elizabeth Gurney Fry Journal of Correctional Education - Find Articles
Joseph was somewhat unworldly in spite of being a tea merchant by trade.
At the age of 20, Elizabeth Cumey became Elizabeth Curney Fry, married Joseph Fry In a crowded Quaker meetinghouse on Sunday, August 19, 1800.
In marrying Joseph Fry, a man who loved her dearly and possessed with the desire to please her, Elizabeth was able to live more fully In her faith and to pursue her calling In life (Cralg, R.L & Rausch, D.A., 2003, p.
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 Peter Ginther I - desc10 - Generated by Family Ties Deluxe Edition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Jesse FRY (Samuel FRY, Susanna GINTHER, Peter, Peter) was born 4 Jan 1820 in Tuscarawas Count, Gnadenhutten, Ohio.
Abraham FRY (Samuel FRY, Susanna GINTHER, Peter, Peter) was born 27 Sep 1827 in Tuscarawas Count, Gnadenhutten, Ohio.
Joseph FRY (Samuel FRY, Susanna GINTHER, Peter, Peter) was born 29 Oct 1832 in Tuscarawas Count, Gnadenhutten, Ohio.
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 J. Andy Fry. Ph.D., at the History Department at UNLV
Joseph A. (Andy) Fry is Distinguished Professor of History.
Fry has published four books: Henry S. Sanford: Diplomacy and Business in Nineteenth Century America (1982); John Tyler Morgan and the Search for Southern Autonomy (1992); Dixie Looks Abroad: The South and U.S. Foreign Relations, 1789-1973 (2002); and Debating Vietnam: Fulbright, Stennis, and Their Senate Hearings (2006).
Fry's current research focuses on the American South and the Vietnam War, and he serves as a member of the editorial board for the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.
www.unlv.edu /History/faculty/andy_fry.html   (179 words)

  
 Missing Pruett family. - ForumGarden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Joseph is buried in the Whitfield Tabernacle, which grew from the 18th century Methodist revival of which Bristol was a focus.
I think Joseph and Mary Ann were born in 1816 and 1821, that she was five years younger than he instead of five years older, and that she had her first child around the age of 12.
Mary Ann FRY was born in 1821 in Oldland, and her parents were Samuel FRY and Elizabeth WALTERS.
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 Shenberger Family - Person Page 42
Joseph Otstott was baptized on 31 October 1812 at Canadochly Church at Lower Windsor Township, York County, Pennsylvania.
Joseph Shenberger was baptized on 14 May 1823 at Canadochly Reformed Church at Lower Windsor Township, York County, Pennsylvania.
She married Joseph Shenberger, son of Baltzer Ebenezer Schönberger Sr and Mary Sarah Sharick, on 4 April 1844 at Richland Co, Ohio.
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 Quaker Food? by Bill Samuel - QuakerInfo.com
His son, Joseph Storrs Fry, patented a new technique for grinding cocoa beans in 1795 using the Watts steam engine, and was the first chocolate manufacturer to introduce factory methods to the industry.
In 1847, the great-grandson of the original Joseph Fry discovered a way to mix melted cocoa butter into defatted ("Dutched") cocoa powder, along with sugar, to create a paste that could be pressed into a mold.
Fry's and Cadbury's merged their financial interests in 1919.
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 FRY - Online Information article about FRY
Joseph Fry, however, is best remembered as the founder of the See also:
Francis Fry died in 1886, and his son Francis J.
nephew Joseph Storrs Fry carried on the business, which in 1896 was for family reasons converted into a private limited See also:
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 Genealogy.com: The Jacob Fry Family of TN, MO, & AR.
Jacob Fry is the son of Peter Frey/Fry and Susannah Seek, born 01 July 1825 in Greene County, Tennessee.
Rev Jacob and Mary Jane Fry lived in the Northeast portion of Texas County and Northwest portion of Dent County as Jacob made a living at carpentry, and farming.
The Fry Farm was located a couple of miles west of town and Rev Jacob Fry had the Palestine Church moved and a cemetery platted out.
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 science.ca Profile : Frederick Ernest Joseph Fry
physiological ecologist, Fry is known internationally for his development of a new model for the way fish respond to their physical and chemical environment.
Fry's major contribution to the science of population dynamics was VPA (virtual population analysis).
Fry served as president of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (1951), the American Fisheries Society (1966), the Canadian Society of Zoologists (1966), and the American Institute of Fishery Research Biologists (1972).
www.science.ca /scientists/scientistprofile.php?pID=275   (422 words)

  
 History's Women An Online Magazine
Elizabeth Fry was a deeply religious woman with great compassion for those in need.
In 1800 she married fellow Quaker Joseph Fry and the first of her eleven children was born the following year.
He was inspired to write about Elizabeth Fry as she was born just a stone's throw from the office where he toils at his day job as a planning engineer for a telecommunications company
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 Cadbury.co.uk - History Of Cadbury - Joseph Storrs Fry & Sons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Under the stewardship of Anna Fry and her third son Joseph Storrs Fry, the business traded as Anna Fry and Son.
In 1795 Joseph Storrs Fry patented a technique for grinding cocoa beans using a newly installed Watts steam engine to provide the power: he was the first chocolate manufacturer to introduce factory methods to the industry.
For many years Fry's produced most of the commercially obtainable chocolate in the UK, although the total cocoa imported to Britain was less than 10,000 tons per year.
www.cadbury.co.uk /EN/CTB2003/about_chocolate/history_cadbury/cabury_fry/js_fry_and_sons.htm   (386 words)

  
 The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Fry
Son of Joshua Fry; brother of John Fry.
Fry, Lucian — of East Lynn, Wayne County, W.Va.; Wayne,
Fry, Phillip — of Fremont, Newaygo County, Mich. Democrat.
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 Frenchay Village Museum - The FRY family in Frenchay
We are often asked whether Elizabeth Fry, whose picture appears on the back of the current five pound note, has a Frenchay connection.
William had a son, another Joseph Fry, who was also in the banking business.
Joseph Fry became bankrupt, and this almost put paid to Elizabeth’s reforming activities.
www.frenchay.org /frys.html   (388 words)

  
 Obituary of Joseph H. Fry, Cloud County, KSGenWeb Digital Library
Obituary of JOSEPH H. Joseph H. Fry was born in Winchester Virginia Oct 19, 1828 and moved to Seneca Co. OH when he was 6 years old.
At the age of 17 he was left to take care of the family by the death of his father.
Fry, Denver CO; Alice B Porter, Denver CO; Alice B porter, Denver CO; Hettie M. McCammon, Otego KS; H. Fry, Durango CO.
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 The Fry Street Quartet: Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
“The Fry Street Quartet is endowed with everything that makes for a striking and unqualified success.
The Fry Street Quartet is pleased to announce that William Fedkenheuer has accepted the position of first violinist, ending an intensive search process that gave the quartet the rare opportunity to rehearse and perform with some of the most exciting violin talents of this generation.
The Fry Street Quartet is proud to announce that it has signed on with Cairns Artist Management, making it one of just a few quartets in the world with an exclusive management agreement.
www.frystreetquartet.com   (152 words)

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