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The eldest son of John Fry (d. 1775) of Sutton Benger, Wiltshire, author of Select Poems (1774), Fry was educated in the north of England. He was bound as an apprentice to Henry Portsmouth of Basingstoke, a doctor, and married Anna, Portsmouth's daughter.
He did however leave a significant legacy to his niece Margery Fry which enabled her to undertake significant work on prison reform, following in the footsteps of her great-aunt Elizabeth Fry (nee Gurney, who had married a nephew of Joseph Storrs Fry I in 1800).
Apr 18, 2022 · Joseph Fry married Anna Portsmouth, who was the daughter of Henry and Rachel Portsmouth. She was born in Basingstoke, Hampshire . She helped Joseph run businesses and stood by his side all the time.
In 1800, aged 20, she married Joseph Fry, nephew of the founder of the chocolate and confectionery company known as J.S.Fry. He was a partner in Gurney’s bank. They lived a prosperous lifestyle and Elizabeth entertained business people in style.
In 1800, she married Joseph Fry who was also a Quaker. In 1813, Elizabeth Fry made her first visit to Newgate prison where she observed women and children in terrible conditions.
She met Joseph Fry, a banker and a cousin of the Bristol Fry family, who was also a Quaker, when she was 20 years old. They married on 19 August 1800 at the Norwich Goat Lane Friends Meeting House, and moved to St Mildred's Court in the City of London .
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May 1, 2017 · Elizabeth Fry (née Gurney) was a social reformer, who is most noted for her work in prisons. She was born in Norwich, England, into a Quaker family. In 1799 she married Joseph Fry (1777-1861), a banker in London, with whom she had eleven children. Elizabeth Fry became a Quaker minister in 1810.
