Sir John Fryer, 1st Baronet

[2][3] "The King was pleased to make me a Barronett & my patent was ordered accordingly it bears date This favour was conferred on me for my fidelity to the Protestant Succession in the House of Hanover & not laying down my Gown(?)

when the Torie Ministry had made the Law against Occasional Conformity contrived on purpose to throw & exclude Dissenters out of Publick places.

His only son who survived to adulthood, John Fryer by Katherine Weedon, died at Wherwell two years before him on 16 August 1724 aged 24.

Sir John died in his 55th year of gout in the stomach at his seat at Wherwell on 11 September 1726 when the baronetcy became extinct.

[1][6] He was survived by: Some notable descendants: His coat of arms was Sable a chevron between three dolphins naiant Argent, a canton Ermine.