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Edward Fry

Sir Edward Fry, GCB, GCMG, FRS, FBA (4 November 1827 – 19 October 1918) was an English Lord Justice of Appeal (1883–1892) and an arbitrator on the Permanent Court of Arbitration.[1]

For the Australian rugby footballer of the same name, see Ed Fry.

Sir Edward Fry
GCB, GCMG, FRS, FBA

(1827-11-04)4 November 1827

19 October 1918(1918-10-19) (aged 90)

[1884] UKHL 1, [1881-85] All ER Rep 106, (1884) 9 App Cas 605; 54 LJQB 130; 51 LT 833; 33 WR 233 - (Fry sitting in the Court of Appeal) - a leading case from the House of Lords on the legal concept of consideration.

Foakes v Beer

(1884) LR 28 Ch D 7 - English contract law case, concerning misrepresentation and holding that a statement of opinion can represent that one knows certain facts, and can amount to misrepresentation.

Smith v Land and House Property Corp

(1884) LR 25 Ch D 320 - a UK company law case on removing directors under the Companies Clauses Act 1845; Fry concurring with Cotton LJ and Lindley LJ

Isle of Wight Rly Co v Tahourdin

(1885) 29 Ch D 459 - contract law case, concerning misrepresentation

Edgington v Fitzmaurice

(1886) 34 Ch 234 - an English unjust enrichment law case, also concerning English contract law, and setting out some fundamental principles of construction of obligations, as viewed to exist by the late 19th-century English judiciary; Fry concurring with Bowen LJ.

Falcke v Scottish Imperial Insurance Co

(1887) - upholding a Queens bench decision supporting the authority of the Inspector of Mines to require the use of safety lamps; Bowen LJ dissenting.[12]

In the Arbitration between Secretary of State for Home Department and Fletcher

[1892] AC 25, (1889) 23 QBD 598, (1888) LR 21 QBD 544 - (Fry sitting in the Court of Appeal) - an English tort law case concerning the economic tort of conspiracy to injure. A product of its time, the courts adhered to a laissez faire doctrine allowing firms to form a cartel.

Mogul Steamship Co Ltd v McGregor, Gow & Co

[1893] AC 602 (Fry sitting in the Court of Appeal) - the House of Lords overturned Fry's Court of Appeal decision and by so doing established the Mozambique rule, a common law rule in private international law that renders actions relating to title in foreign land, the right to possession of foreign land, and trespass to foreign land non-justiciable in common law jurisdictions.[13]

British South Africa Co v Companhia de Moçambique

Judgments of Fry include:

Edward Portsmouth Fry (1860-1928)

Mariabella Fry (1861-1920)

(1862–1955) Quaker social reformer

Joan Mary Fry

Elizabeth Alice Fry (1864-1868)

(1866–1934) – Artist, member of the Bloomsbury Group

Roger Eliot Fry

(1869–1957) – co-writer with her father on several scientific treatises and later wrote a biography of him; and her twin sister Isabel Fry (1869-1958), educator

Agnes Fry

(1874–1958) – penal reformer, principal of Somerville College (1926–1931), founder of the Howard League

(Sara) Margery Fry

(1878–1962) – pacifist and Quaker activist.

(Anna) Ruth Fry

Edward Fry married in 1859 Mariabella Hodgkin (1833–1930), daughter of John Hodgkin, granddaughter of Luke Howard, and sister of the historian, Thomas Hodgkin: and they were the parents of seven daughters, one dying young, and two sons.[14][15] They lived in Highgate at 5 The Grove, a house later owned by the singer George Michael.[16]

by Mark Lawley, 2006. Contains information on Edward Fry's interest in Bryology.

A Social and Biographical History of British and Irish Field-Bryologists

– contains information on her siblings also

AIM25: Institute of Education: Fry, Isabel (1869–1958)

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