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FRY, SIR EDWARD (1827– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 271 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRY, See also:SIR See also:EDWARD (1827– ) , See also:English See also:judge, second son of See also:Joseph Fry (1795–1879), was See also:born at See also:Bristol on the 4th of See also:November 1827, and educated at University See also:College, See also:London, and London University. He was called to the See also:bar in 1854 and was made a Q.C. in 1869, practising in the rolls See also:court and becoming recognized as a leading See also:equity lawyer. In 1877 he was raised to the See also:bench and knighted. As See also:chancery judge he will be remembered for his careful interpretations and elucidations of the Judicature Acts, then first coming into operation. In 1883 he was made a See also:lord See also:justice of See also:appeal, but resigned in 1892; and subsequently his knowledge of equity and talents for See also:arbitration were utilized by the See also:British See also:government from See also:time to time in various See also:special directions, particularly as chairman of many commissions. He was also one of the British representatives at the See also:Paris See also:North See also:Sea Inquiry See also:Commission (1905), and was appointed a member of the See also:Hague Permanent Arbitration Court. He wrote A See also:Treatise on the Specific Performance of Public Contracts (London, 1858, and many subsequent See also:editions).

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