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Com. on the Irish Land Acts, 1897-1898; Chairman of the Court of Arbitration under the Metropolitan Water Act, 1902; member of the Permanent Court of International Arbitration at the Hague; author of a "Treatise on the Specific Performance of Contracts," of "British Mosses," and "The Mycetozoa."--["Who's Who."] _fa bro_, Francis FRY (1803-1886), member of the firm of J.S. Fry and Co., Bristol; a great authority on bibliography.--["Dict. N. Biog."] _bro_, Right Hon. Lewis FRY (b. 1832), M.P. for Bristol, 1878-1885; N. Bristol, 1885-1892, and 1895-1900.--["Who's Who."] _bro_, Joseph Storrs FRY, has maintained and extended a large manufacturing business, and taken an active part in philanthropic work. _fa fa fa_, Joseph FRY (1728-1787), practised medicine in Bristol, afterwards manufactured cocoa and chocolate; started type-founding business with William Pine, 1764.--["Dic. N. Biog."] _fa fa bro_, Edmund FRY (1754-1835), M.D. of Edinburgh; devoted his life to the business of type-founding, and to the philological studies connected with it.--["Dic. N. Biog."] _wife_, Mariabella, nee HODGKIN, _dau_ of the historian. Francis #GALTON# (b. 1822), D.C.L., Hon. Sc.D. (Camb.), F.R.S., traveller, anthropologist and biometrician; author of many works and memoirs on these and analogous subjects, including meteorology, heredity, identification by fingerprints; latterly a promoter of the study of Eugenics. Gold medal R. Geog. Soc., 1853, for travels in Damaraland, S. Africa; Royal medal, 1886, and Darwin medal, 1903, of the Royal Soc., for applications of measurement to human faculty; Huxley medal of the Anthropol. Institute, 1901.--["Ency. Brit.," and "Who's Who."] _fa si_, SCHIMMELPENNINCK (1778-1856), Mrs. Mary Anne, author of various works, mostly theological, and on the Port Royalists and Moravians.--["Dic. N. Biog."] _fa fa fa_, Samuel GALTON (1720-1799), cultured Quaker philanthropist, contractor and banker.--[See life of above M.A.S., and the "Annual Register."] _fa me 1/2 bro_, Robert Barclay ALLARDICE (1779-1854), commonly known as Capt. BARCLAY of Ury, pedestrian, noted for his walking feats, agriculturist.--["Dic. N. Biog."] _me fa_, Erasmus DARWIN, M.D., F.R.S.--See DARWIN. _me 1/2 bro son_, Charles Robert DARWIN, F.R.S., the naturalist.--See DARWIN. _si son_, Edward G. WHELER (b. 1850), a founder and president of the Land Agents' Societ
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