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    Sara Margery Fry JP (11 March 1874 – 21 April 1958) was a British prison reformer as well as one of the first women to become a magistrate. She was the...
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    Dowson between 1958 and 1966, Vaughan and Margery Fry & Elizabeth Nuffield House (commonly shortened to Margery Fry) are both named for former principals...
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  • and professor Maia Krall Fry (born 1992), English actress and director Margery Fry (1874–1958), British prison reformer Mark Fry (born 1952), English painter...
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  • gardens Margery Fisher, British literary critic and academic Margery Fry, British prison reformer Margery Gardner, actress; 1946 murder victim Margery Greenwood...
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    judge Edward Fry, he grew up in a wealthy Quaker family in Highgate. His siblings included Joan Mary Fry, Agnes Fry and Margery Fry; Margery was principal...
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    inherited by his 37 nephews and nieces including Roger Fry, Joan Mary Fry, Margery Fry, and Ruth Fry (though £42,000 was split amongst employees with more...
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  • Group, of the prison reformer Margery Fry, of the Quaker activist and writer Ruth Fry, of the poet and bryologist Agnes Fry. During the First World War...
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  • Fry (1864–1868) Roger Eliot Fry (1866–1934) – Artist, member of the Bloomsbury Group Her twin sister Isabel Fry (1869–1958), educator (Sara) Margery Fry...
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  • intellectual life. Her other prominent siblings were Joan Mary Fry, Margery Fry, and Ruth Fry. Fry had a governess, disliking the object lesson style of instruction...
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    FBA (1881–1961), literary scholar and Principal of Somerville College Margery Fry (1874–1958), prison reformer; one of the first women to become a magistrate;...
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    early March by Margery Corbett Ashby, a member of the executive board of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, and Margery Fry, a penal reformer...
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    juvenile offenders became a central concern for her throughout her life. Margery Fry, director of the Howard League for Penal Reform from its inception in...
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  • Bonham Carter, Alan Bullock, Anthony Chenevix-Trench, Kenneth Clark, Margery Fry, Commander Rupert Gould, Gilbert Harding (as chairman), Herbert Hart...
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    foremost, her mother, Molly; the medical missionary Mary Slessor; and Margery Fry, the Principal of Somerville College. In 1928 at age 18 Hodgkin entered...
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    Another founder member was Mildred Pope and other early members were Margery Fry and Hilda Oakeley. Denied an Oxford degree due to her gender, she was...
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    and social worker. She was a lifelong friend of the prison reformer Margery Fry, Labour Councillor for Hampstead in London, and undertook significant...
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    William Morris, Vernon Lee, Mary Lascelles and alumnae Vera Brittain, Margery Fry, Margaret Kennedy, Vivien Noakes and Muriel St. Clare Byrne. The library...
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    educator (Sara) Margery Fry (1874–1958) – penal reformer, principal of Somerville College (1926–1931), founder of the Howard League (Anna) Ruth Fry (1878–1962)...
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    Society. A career in archaeology was first suggested to Kathleen by Margery Fry, librarian at Somerville College. After graduation Kenyon's first field...
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  • administration. Returning to London, where he stayed with his father's cousin, Margery Fry, and joined the Communist Party, Hodgkin briefly tried training as a...
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    but male visitors to Somerville remained subject to a curfew. In 1927, Margery Fry, who had been appointed principal the previous year, spoke out publicly...
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  • Oxford she was appointed university lecturer. In 1931 she succeeded Margery Fry as principal of Somerville, resigning her university lectureship (though...
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  • Eaton died on 8 March 1939, aged 77 or 78, at Hampstead. Her colleague Margery Fry wrote in an obituary of Eaton, "She would take endless pains to help...
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  • relief worker and social reformer Joseph Fry (1777–1861), English tea dealer and an unsuccessful banker Margery Fry (1874–1958), English penal reformer and...
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  • September Island, illustrated by Margery Gill (1965) Snowed Up, illustrated by Robin Jacques (1970) "Rosalie K. Fry". New York Review of Books. Twentieth-century...
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    Sir Charles Raymond Beazley was Professor of History. Prison reformer Margery Fry was first warden of University House. Vice-Chancellors and Principals...
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    constructed in 1908 as a residence for female students at the university. Margery Fry was UH's first warden, from its beginnings at Hagley Road, and remained...
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  • work was exhibited by Roger Fry, who brought her work to public attention. Richardson was also close to his sister, Margery Fry, who encouraged her to teach...
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  • no previous engagement in the cause of prison reform, Craven replaced Margery Fry as secretary of the Howard League for Penal Reform. She was also editor...
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  • Secretary. The new organisation was led by Margery Fry, who had been Secretary of the Penal Reform League since 1918. Fry was succeeded by Cicely Craven as honorary...
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