trick: leaping from a stationary position backwards onto a mantelpiece. C. B. Fry was born in Croydon, the son of a civil servant. Both sides of his family...
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Fry family that founded the eponymous chocolate company, John Fry (one of the signatories to the death warrant for Charles I), and the cricketer C. B...
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Stephen Hope Fry (23 May 1900 – 18 May 1979) was an English first-class cricketer. The son of the cricketer C. B. Fry and his wife, Beatrice Holme Sumner...
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grandson of C. B. Fry Charlotte Fry (born 1996), British equestrian athlete Chris Fry (footballer) (born 1969), Welsh footballer Christopher Fry (1907–2005)...
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grandfather, C. B. Fry in playing for Hampshire. As of 2024, this remains the only instance of three generations of one family playing for the county. Fry did...
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in Victorian society of the 1880s and 1890s and was later the wife of C. B. Fry. Sumner was born in Chelsea, Middlesex, on 12 July 1862, the daughter...
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Charles Fry could refer to: C. B. Fry (Charles Burgess Fry, 1872–1956), English cricketer and journalist Charles Fry (born 1940), English cricketer and...
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first Black player to play Association football at international level. C. B. Fry: sporting polymath who made 74 appearances for Corinthian FC, described...
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W. G. Grace (category C. I. Thornton's XI cricketers)
by asking C. B. Fry, another selector who had arrived late for their meeting, if he thought that MacLaren should play in the Second Test. Fry answered:...
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by the 1990s. Notable alumni, also known as "Old Reptonians", include C. B. Fry, Christopher Isherwood, Jeremy Clarkson, Andy Wilman, Roald Dahl, Adrian...
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The vocal fry register (also known as pulse register, laryngealization, pulse phonation, creaky voice, creak, croak, popcorning, glottal fry, glottal rattle...
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to Vibhaji. Instead, his developing friendship with Billy Murdoch and C. B. Fry led to Ranjitsinhji becoming interested in playing cricket for Sussex...
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tours of England upon which he scored over 800 runs. English cricketer C. B. Fry exclaimed "Let us paint him white and take him with us to Australia as...
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French fries (North American English & British English), chips (British and other national varieties), finger chips (Indian English), french-fried potatoes...
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a bird) was "a bird -singing contest" were dismissed by the polymath C. B. Fry as "humbug" but the national press increasingly referred to the team as...
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Mark Nicholas (category EngvarB from August 2013)
Hampshire County Cricket Club, including Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie and C. B. Fry. Since his retirement as a player, Nicholas has worked in broadcasting...
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cricketer Sir Christopher Frayling, Rector, The Royal College of Art C. B. Fry, cricketer Lieutenant General Sir Charles Henry Gairdner (1898–1983),...
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consecutive centuries in first class cricket, alongside Don Bradman and C. B. Fry. Gloucestershire was affectionately nicknamed "Proctershire" when Procter...
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Roger Eliot Fry (14 December 1866 – 9 September 1934) was an English painter and critic, and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Establishing his reputation...
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Barry Francis Fry (born 7 April 1945) is an English former football player and manager. An inside forward, Fry scored a goal for England Schoolboys in...
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in 2005, Smith was Hampshire's most successful England batsman since C. B. Fry. Smith was born in Durban, South Africa completing his high school education...
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Stir frying (Chinese: 炒; pinyin: chǎo; Wade–Giles: ch'ao3; Cantonese Yale: cháau) is a cooking technique in which ingredients are fried in a small amount...
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Samuel Benjamin Bankman-Fried (born March 5, 1992), commonly known as SBF, is an American entrepreneur who was convicted of fraud and related crimes in...
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The Strand Magazine (category EngvarB from June 2013)
Allen, Margery Allingham, H. C. McNeile (aka Sapper), J. E. Preston Muddock, E. C. Bentley, Mary Angela Dickens, C. B. Fry, Walter Goodman, W. W. Jacobs...
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and journalist C B Fry in the press box at Taunton he was able to transmit Fry’s report after the telephonist failed to turn up. Fry recommended West...
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Stephen Fry is an English actor, comedian, author and television presenter. With Hugh Laurie, as the comedy double act Fry and Laurie, he co-wrote and...
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Max Woosnam (category EngvarB from August 2013)
friend of Richard Hillary (Author of The Last Enemy); Max, and Penny. C. B. Fry, Cuthbert Ottaway and Alfred Lyttelton — three similar sporting polymaths...
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great names such as Grace, Trumper, Blythe, Wilfred Rhodes, Jack Hobbs, C. B. Fry, Ranjitsinhji and Frank Woolley, but that in itself is not unique as any...
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Wadham College, Oxford (category EngvarB from September 2013)
were undergraduates together in the 1890s, along with the sportsman C. B. Fry; Sir Thomas Beecham was an undergraduate in 1897, though soon abandoning...
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Claude Choules (category EngvarB from August 2019)
HMS Gannet. The commander of the Mercury training site was the cricketer C. B. Fry, and Choules's time there included trips to Netley Hospital as part of...
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