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English type-founder and chocolate maker
- Joseph Fry (1728 – 27 March 1787) was an English type-founder and chocolate maker, founding the family chocolate company that would later become J. S. Fry & Sons, and founder of the Bristol branch of the Quaker Fry family.
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Joseph Fry (1728 – 27 March 1787) was an English type-founder and chocolate maker, founding the family chocolate company that would later become J. S. Fry & Sons, and founder of the Bristol branch of the Quaker Fry family.
Joseph Storrs Fry II (1826 – 1913), great grandson of the first Joseph Fry, was the first chairman and by 1907 J.S. Fry & Sons Ltd was Britain’s fifty-first largest manufacturing employer. All the Frys were devout Quakers, known for their quiet kindness and generosity.
Apr 18, 2022 · The inventor of chocolate, as we know it today, is not officially known. However, we can assume that it was Joseph Fry. He is credited with being the first person to create “chocolate for eating.” He was the one who mixed cocoa powder, sugar, and cocoa. As a result, they received edible chocolate.
Joseph Fry - Candy Hall of Fame. Class of 2007. Joseph was born in Birmingham, England in 1728. He was an apprentice to Dr. Henry Portsmouth, who trained Joseph extensively in the medical properties of herbs, plants and compound drugs.
J. S. Fry & Sons, Ltd., better known as Fry's, was a British chocolate company owned by Joseph Storrs Fry and his family. Beginning in Bristol in 1761, the business went through several changes of name and ownership, becoming J. S. Fry & Sons in 1822.
Mar 1, 2008 · The creation of the first modern chocolate bar is credited to Joseph Fry, who in 1847 discovered that he could make a moldable chocolate paste by adding melted cacao butter back into Dutch cocoa....
Joseph Fry (1728-1787) of J. S. Fry and Sons, chocolate manufacturer and typefounder, 1728 born into a devout Quaker family, the eldest son of John Fry (d. 1775), a shopkeeper of Sutton Benger, Wiltshire.
