Francis Fry

He was educated at a large school at Fishponds, in the neighbourhood of Frenchay, kept by a Quaker named Joel Lean, and began business training at Croydon.

[1] In 1852 he made proposals to the railway companies for a general parcel service throughout the United Kingdom.

He died 12 November 1886, soon after the completion of his eighty-third year and was buried in the Friends' graveyard at King's Weston, near Bristol.

Two years later Fry produced his facsimile reprint, by means of tracing and lithography, of Tyndale's New Testament (1525 or 1526), the first complete edition printed in English, from the only perfect copy known at the time, later in the Baptist College, Bristol.

This work was followed by his account of Miles Coverdale's translation of the Scriptures, and his description of forty editions of Tyndale's version, most of them having variants.

In 1833 he married Matilda, only daughter of Daniel and Anne Penrose, of Brittas, County Wicklow.