Thomas Fry (priest, born 1718)
Thomas Fry, D.D. (1718–1772) was an English priest and academic. He was president of St John's College, Oxford from 1757.[1]
Fry was born in Bristol and entered St John's in 1730.[2] He graduated BA in 1736, and MA in 1740. He was ordained in 1744. At St John's he was logic reader from 1737 to 1740; dean of arts from 1740 to 1744; natural philosophy reader from 1745 to 1746; college preacher from 1746 to 1747; bursar from 1748 to 1749; dean of divinity from 1750 to 1754; and vice-president from 1755 to 1757.
He died intestate in Bristol on 22 November 1772. He was buried in the churchyard at Clifton.[3]
References[]
- ^ Sillery, V. "Fry, Thomas". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37437. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ "Commentary: Anonymous on Rev. Thomas Fry". spenserians.cath.vt.edu.
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