C. B. Fry
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Charles Burgess Fry was an English sportsman, teacher, writer, editor and publisher, who is best remembered for his career as a cricketer. John Arlott described him with the words: "Charles Fry could be autocratic, angry and self-willed: he was also magnanimous, extravagant, generous, elegant, brilliant - and fun ...
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Fry's birthplace at 144 St James's Road in Croydon (pictured in 2016)
Repton School, where Fry was educated (pictured in 2007)
England v. Australia at Trent Bridge, 1899. Back row: Dick Barlow (umpire), Tom Hayward, George Hirst, Billy Gunn, J. T. Hearne (12th man), Bill Storer (wkt kpr), Bill Brockwell, V. A. Titchmarsh (umpire). Middle row: C. B. Fry, K. S. Ranjitsinhji, W. G. Grace (captain), Stanley Jackson. Front row: Wilfred Rhodes, Johnny Tyldesley
Fry caricatured by Spy for Vanity Fair, 1894
Fry wearing Barbarians kit, c.1893.
C. B. Fry in the early 1920s whilst standing for one of the Brighton seatsTeams 15
Career record
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Harold LarwoodAlso played for Europeans cricket team
Douglas JardineAlso played for Oxford University Cricket Club
Reece TopleyAlso played for Hampshire County Cricket Club
Brian SmithAlso played for Oxford University RFC
Johnny DouglasAlso played for London County Cricket Club
Tymal MillsAlso played for Sussex County Cricket ClubAbout this person
Charles Burgess Fry was an English sportsman, teacher, writer, editor and publisher, who is best remembered for his career as a cricketer. John Arlott described him with the words: "Charles Fry could be autocratic, angry and self-willed: he was also magnanimous, extravagant, generous, elegant, brilliant - and fun ... he was probably the most variously gifted Englishman of any age."
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