Clement-Jones family 12/22 - Person Sheet
Notes for Norah FRY
Norah Lillian Fry (1871–1960) was a member of a
Bristol Quaker Fry family of the
J. S. Fry & Sons company. She became an advocate and campaigner for
disabled children and those with
learning difficulties and in 1918 became the first female councillor in
Somerset.
Norah Fry was born and educated in
Clifton,
Bristol, one of the daughters of Francis James Fry and relative of
Joseph Storrs Fry. She later became Norah Lillian Cooke-Hurle after her marriage to Joseph Cooke-Hurle in 1915. She was an advocate for better services for people with learning difficulties. She was very concerned about the lack of proper schools for disabled children and the shortage of housing for people with learning difficulties.[3]
She served as the chair of the statutory mental deficiency committee and a key member of the Somerset Association for Mental Welfare (SAMW).
The
Norah Fry research centre of the
University of Bristol is named after her. As was a hospital in
Shepton Mallet.[2]