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FRY , the name of a well-known See also:

English Quaker See also:family, originally living in See also:Wiltshire. About the See also:middle of the 18th See also:century See also:JOSEPH FRY (1728–1787), a See also:doctor, settled in See also:Bristol, where he acquired a large practice, but eventually abandoned See also:medicine for See also:commerce. He became interested in See also:china-making, See also:soap-boiling and type-See also:founding businesses in Bristol, and in a chemical See also:works at See also:Battersea, all of which ventures proved very profitable. The type-founding business was subsequently re-moved to See also:London and conducted by his son See also:Edmund. Joseph Fry, however, is best remembered as the founder of the See also:great Bristol See also:firm of J. S. Fry & Sons, See also:chocolate manufacturers. He See also:purchased the chocolate-making patent of See also:William See also:Church-See also:man and on it laid the See also:foundations of the See also:present large business. After his See also:death the Bristol chocolate factory was carried on with increasing success by his widow and by his son, JOSEPH See also:STORRS FRY (1767–1835). In 1795 a new and larger factory was built in See also:Union See also:Street, Bristol, which still forms the centre of the firm's premises, and in 1798 a See also:Watt's See also:steam-See also:engine was purchased and the See also:cocoa-beans ground by steam. On the death of Joseph Storrs Fry his three sons, Joseph (1795–1879), See also:Francis, and See also:Richard (1807–1878) became partners in the firm, the See also:control being mainly in the hands of FRANCIS FRY (1803–1886). Francis Fry was in every way a remarkable See also:character.

The development of the business to its See also:

modern enormous proportion was chiefly his See also:work, but this did not exhaust his activities. He took a See also:principal See also:part in the introduction of See also:railways to the See also:west of See also:England, and in 1852 See also:drew up a See also:scheme for a See also:general English railway See also:parcel service. He was an ardent bibliographer, taking a See also:special See also:interest in See also:early English Bibles, of which he made in the course of a See also:long See also:life a large and striking collection, and of the most celebrated of which he published facsimiles with See also:bibliographical notes. Francis Fry died in 1886, and his son Francis J. Fry and See also:nephew Joseph Storrs Fry carried on the business, which in 1896 was for family reasons converted into a private limited See also:company, Joseph Storrs Fry being chairman and all the See also:directors members of the Fry family.

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