Author: Fry, John
Biography:
FRY, John (1775-1849: findmypast.com)
He was born at Frant, Sussex, on 6 May 1775 and baptised on May 8, the son of Jane (Stamper) and John Fry of Tunbridge Wells. After Oxford (University College, matric. 1794, BA 1798) he went straight into the church, being ordained deacon in 1798 and employed first as curate at Ewhurst in Surrey, where he married Martha Larkin (1781-1826) on 15 May 1798. They had at least five children, including two sons who became clergymen like their father. In 1801 he was made rector of Desford, Leiceistershire, where he stayed for the rest of his life; he was also for a time chaplain to the 6th Viscount Ranelagh and from 1814 stipendiary curate at Enderby, Leics. He published quite assiduously on theological and pastoral matters from 1811 to 1835: besides the verse version of Canticles, advice for convalescents (1814, 1823), lectures on the Epistle of Paul to the Romans (1816), a "short history" of the Christian church (1825), observations on the Second Coming (1822) and on unfulfilled prophecies of the Bible (1835); his only other literary work seems to have been a new translation of the Book of Job, with notes (1827). He died at the Desford rectory on 21 June 1849. (findmypast.com 1 Dec. 2021; ancestry.com 1 Dec. 2021; GM Aug. 1849, 216; CCEd 1 Dec. 2021; Alumni Oxonienses) HJ
Other Names:
- the Rev. John Fry