Danby Palmer Fry

Born in Great Ormond Street, London, on 1 December 1818, he was second son in the family of four sons and four daughters of Alfred Augustus Fry, an accountant and for some years a partner in Thomas de la Rue & Co.; his mother was Jane Sarah Susannah Westcott.

The eldest son, Alfred Augustus Fry, was the first English barrister to practise in Constantinople.

On 1 April 1848, during the Chartist riots, he reported hourly via messengers on the agitators on Kennington Common.

He died unmarried, on 16 February 1903, at his home 166 Haverstock Hill, and was buried on the western side of Highgate cemetery (grave no.4451).

[2] Fry contributed papers on linguistic subjects to the Transactions of the Philological Society; and was joint author with Benjamin Dawson of a short book On the Genders of French Substantives (1876).