Margery Fry
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Sara Margery Fry
Early life
Fry was born in London in 1874. She was the child of Quakers Sir Edward Fry, a judge, and his wife, Mariabella Hodgkin (1833–1930). Her siblings included Joan Mary Fry, the social reformer, Roger Fry of the Bloomsbury Group, the biographer and bryologist Agnes Fry and pacifist Anna Ruth Fry. She was home schooled until she was seventeen when she attended Miss Lawrence's school at Brighton before proceeding to study maths at Somerville College, Oxford in 1894. She went home after she graduated but returned to Somerville to become their librarian.[1]
In 1904, she left Somerville and became Warden of the new women's residence at
In 1913 her uncle, Joseph Storrs Fry died and left her sufficient money that she left her position at Birmingham in the following year. After 1915, she helped organise Quaker relief efforts in the Marne war area, and then elsewhere in France.[1]
Belief in penal reform
After the
In 1921 she was appointed a
She also became concerned with compensation for victims of crimes which resulted in an article, "Justice for Victims", in the Observer in 1957 and republished as part of a round table article in the Journal of Public Law.[3][4][5][6] Gerhard Mueller in 1965 wrote "Margery Fry is at the root of all current proposals for victim compensation".[3]: 216
Academic career
Fry studied mathematics at Somerville College, Oxford. She was Librarian at Somerville (1899–1904). In 1904, she became Warden of the women's residence at
From 1926 to 1930, she was
Somerville College Library holds a collection of her correspondence and papers.[10]
Other
In 1919, she was appointed to the newly founded
She was also a governor of the BBC from 1937 to 1938 and a participant in The Brains Trust series starting in 1942.[11] The Fry Housing Trust was established in 1959, in memory of Margery Fry. In 1990, the Margery Fry Award was established in her honour.[12] In the 1940s/1950s she and her sister Ruth lived together in a large Georgian house in Clarendon Road, W11, surrounded by treasures accumulated from around the world. There they occasionally gave magical tea parties for local children.
References
- ^ a b c "Margery Fry". www.quakersintheworld.org. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
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- ^ a b Mueller, Gerhard (1 January 1965). "Compensation for Victims of Crime: Thought before Action". Minnesota Law Review. 50: 213–221.
- ^ Fry, Margery (7 July 1957). "Justice for Victims". The Observer. London. p. 8.
- ^ Fry, Margery (1959). "Justice for Victims Compensation for Victims of Criminal Violence: A Round Table". Journal of Public Law. 8 (1): 191–253. Retrieved 9 March 2024.
- ISSN 2051-7483.
- ^ "Somerville College Pages 343-347 A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 3, the University of Oxford". British History Online. Victoria County History, 1954. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
- ^ "Somerville's Jubilee". Archived from the original on 23 September 2012. Retrieved 10 September 2012.
- ^ "A full College of the University". Archived from the original on 23 September 2012. Retrieved 10 September 2012.
- ^ "Special Collections". some.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
- ISBN 978-1-137-49172-5.
- ^ "home – The Howard League for Penal Reform". Howard League. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
Bibliography
- Margery Fry: The Essential Amateur by Enid Huws Jones, Oxford University Press. 1966.
- "Margery Fry",
- The Politics of Penal Reform: Margery Fry and the Howard League (2017) by Ann Logan [1]
External links
- Fry Housing Trust website
- The official history of Fry's career on the Somerville College website Archived 23 September 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- Margery Fry, 1874–1958: a lecture given on Friday 5 July 1974, at the University of Birmingham to celebratethe centenary of the birth of Margery Fry, by Janet Vaughan. Published in 1974, Margery Fry Memorial Trust (Birmingham).
- Fry's correspondence and papers are now held by Somerville College library
- ^ Routledge SOLON Explorations in Crime and Criminal Justice Histories