Joseph Storrs Fry

He was born in 1767, son of Joseph Fry (1728–1787),[1] in business as a manufacturer of chocolate and of soap, and as a type founder, and his wife Anna, daughter of Dr Henry Portsmouth, of Basingstoke, Hampshire.

[2] His father had started a number of businesses including an experimental chocolate factory, Fry, Vaughan and Company.

[3] Dr Hunt retired in 1822 and Joseph Storrs Fry took his sons, Joseph (1795–1879), Francis (1803–1886) and Richard (1807–1878) on as partners renaming the firm J. S. Fry & Sons under which name it became the largest commercial producer of chocolate in Britain.

He died in 1835 and his sons took full control of the firm, ultimately passing to his grandson Joseph Storrs Fry II (1826–1913).

[1] He was buried behind the Frenchay Quaker Meeting House along with his wife Ann and his daughter Priscilla.