FRUIT PIGEON 



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FRY 



When the British plum crop is 

 heavy, nearly sufficient is produced 

 to satisfy home requirements, and 

 in these years " gluts," or periods 

 of very low prices, often occur, 

 due often to the fruit ripening in 

 larger quantities than the markets 

 can absorb at one time, but some- 

 times to large quantities arriving 

 from abroad while the markets are 

 already fairly well stocked. The 

 plum acreage in Britain, notwith- 

 standing these setbacks, is ex- 

 tending gradually. ~) 



Gooseberries and red currants 

 are the other home-grown fruits, 

 which are also largely imported, 

 and which suffer in some years 

 from gluts due to the supplies 

 being too heavy for the demand. 



Fruit Pigeon. Name given 

 vaguely to a number of large, hand- 

 somely coloured pigeons, of the 

 ^ , -= family Treroni- 

 dae, which feed 

 mainly on fruit. 

 The beak is so 

 adapted that it 

 can be widely 

 distended at 

 the base in 

 order to 

 swallow fruits 

 whole. Found 

 throughout S. 

 Asia and Aus- 

 tralia, these 

 birds do great 

 damage to 

 crops. 



Frundsberg, GEORG VON (1473- 

 1528). German soldier. Born at 

 Mindelheim, of noble family, he 

 became a sol- ^^^^^^^^^^^^ 

 dier, and saw a 

 good deal of 

 service in Ger- 

 many and Italy. 

 He is chiefly 

 known for his 

 share in or- 

 ganizing the 

 troops known 

 as Lands- Georg von Frunds- 

 knechte, which ber g German soldier 



he led With From an engraving 



conspicuous success. ' His chief 

 exploit was against the French and 

 Venetians in Italy. In April, 

 1522, he won the battle of Bicocca, 

 and he was present at Pavia ; 

 he also served Charles V against 

 the rebellious duke of Wiirttem- 

 berg, and in crushing the. revolt of 

 the peasants in 1525. He died 

 at Mindelheim, Aug. 10, 1528. 



Fry, CHARLES BURGESS (b. 1872). 

 Athlete, cricketer, and footballer. 

 Born at Croydon, April 25, 1872, 

 he was educated at Repton and 

 Oxford; A good, all-round ath- 

 lete, he was particularly famous as 

 a cricketer. He gained a triple 

 blue at Oxford, and was captain 



Fruit Pigeon oJ 

 Oceania, Carpo- 

 phaga oceanica 



Charles B. Fry, 

 British athlete 



Lafayette 



of the XI against Cambridge at 

 Lord's in 1894, when he scored a 

 century. He originally played for 

 Surrey, later 

 for Sussex, 

 and in 1909 for 

 Hampshire. In 

 1900 he made 

 a total of 3,147 

 runs, with an 

 average of over 

 78 per innings. 

 His innings of 

 232 not out for 

 the Gentlemen 

 v. Players, in 

 1903, ranks as his best performance. 

 In the test match against S. Africa 

 in 1907 he scored 129, and he was 

 England's captain in the triangular 

 test matches of 1912. For many 

 years Fry held the record for the 

 long jump. He is also an interna- 

 tional at Association football. He 

 has written books on cricket, foot- 

 ball, and diabolo. He was hon. 

 commander, R.N.R. See C. B. Fry : 

 the man and his method, A. W. 

 Myers, 1912. 



Fry, SIR EDWARD (1827-1918). 

 British lawyer. Born Nov. 4, 1827, 

 of a well-known Quaker family, he 

 was educated 

 at Bristol and 

 London Uni- 

 versity. In 

 1854 he became 

 a barrister, and 

 by the aid of a 

 work on Con- 

 tracts, still of 

 high value, and 

 Sir Edward Fry, solid legal 

 British lawyer powers, made 



Elliott & Fry j^ name fts 



a chancery lawyer. In 1869 he 

 became a Q.C., and in 1877 a judge 

 of the court of chancery. He served 

 on the bench with distinction 

 and dignity for fifteen years, first 

 in the chancery court, and after 

 1883 as a lord justice of appeal. 



After his retirement in 1892 

 he did varied public work. Inter- 

 ested in the question of inter- 

 national arbitration, he was made 

 permanent member of the Hague 

 tribunal, and represented his coun- 

 try at the conference of 1907. Fry 

 Presided over two commissions on 

 rish affairs, one on land, in 1897, 

 and one on university education ; 

 acted as arbitrator in trade disputes, 

 and took a leading part in the cam- 

 paign against secret commissions 

 in business. He died Oct. 18, 1918. 

 Fry, ELIZABETH (1780-1845). 

 English prison reformer. Born 

 at Gurney Court, Norwich, May 

 21, 1780, a daughter of John Gur- 

 ney, Quaker and banker, she was 

 brought up in cultured surround- 

 ings, and married Joseph Fry, 

 another Quaker, in 1800. In 1813 



Mrs. Fry paid her first visit to 



Newgate prison. The horror and 



filth she saw there determined her 



to devote her- 



s e 1 f to i m- 



proving the lot 



of the prison- I 



ers, especially I 



the females, IKL 



and the rest Ink 



of her life was 



spent in this 



cause. 



In 1817 she 

 formed an as- 

 sociation for 

 their improve- ' A ' ter c - R - Leslie 

 ment, and, like Howard, extended 

 her interest to prisons in other parts 

 of Europe. So successful was she 

 that in 1818 she was called before a 

 committee of the House of Com- 

 mons, and thanked for her work. 

 She died at Ramsgate, Oct. 12, 

 1845, leaving several children. See 

 Memoirs, 1847, ed. by her daughters, 

 and Life, by G. K. Lewis, 1910. 



Fry, JOSEPH (1728-87). British 

 manufacturer. Born at Sutton 

 Benger, Wiltshire, he was ap- 

 prenticed to a doctor at Basing- 

 stoke. He settled in Bristol, where 

 he soon had a good practice, but 

 his fame rests upon his business 

 enterprises. He founded the busi- 

 ness of cocoa and chocolate manu- 

 facturers, now the firm of J. S. 

 Fry & Sons, and also became a 

 typefounder. This concern, having 

 been transferred to London, be- 

 came known as Joseph Fry & 

 Sons, and was responsible for some 

 useful typographical innovations, 

 and printed some Bibles. 



Fry was also interested in soap 

 and chemical works. He died 

 March 29, 1787. Like many of his 

 descendants, Fry was a member of 

 the Society of Friends. One of his 

 grandsons was Francis Fry (I803- 

 86), the bibliographer. Other noted 

 members of this family were Sir 

 Edward Fry (q.v.) ; Theodore Fry 

 (1836-1912), an ironmaster, who 

 was made a baronet in 1894, and 

 was M.P. for Darlington from 

 1890-95; and Lewis Fry (1832- 

 1921), M.P. for Bristol, 1878-92 

 and 1895-1 9CO. 



Fry, ROGER EDWARD (b. 1866). 

 British artist and critic. Son of Sir 

 Edward Fry (q.v:) he was educated 

 at Clifton and 

 Ca m br i dge, 

 where he took 

 his degree in 

 science. He 

 then turned to 

 art. '. He has 

 exhibited fre- 

 quently, but is 

 better known 



Roger E. Fry, -, _ _ n pr iif nr n f 

 British artist f, c - edl . tor 

 Elliott & Fry The Burlington 



