Sir Theodore Fry, 1st Baronet (1 May 1836 – 5 February 1912) was an
English businessman and
Liberal Party politician who sat in the
House of Commons from 1880 to 1895.
Fry was the son of
Francis Fry, of
Bristol, and his wife Matilda Penrose, daughter of Daniel Penrose. He was educated at Bristol. He was active in business in the North East being director of the Bearpark Coal and Coke Co, director of Shildon and Weardale Waterworks and head of Fry Janson and Co iron manufacturers of Darlington.[1] He was mayor of Darlington 1877 - 1878.[2]
At the
1880 general election Fry was elected
Member of Parliament (MP) for
Darlington, and held the seat until the
1895 general election.[3] He was made a Baronet, of Woodburn in the parish of Blackwell in the County of Durham, in 1894.[4]
Fry died at the age of 76 at his residence, Beechhanger Court,
Caterham.[5]
Fry married
Sophia Pease (1837–1897), a philanthropist and political activist and granddaughter of the railway pioneer
Edward Pease.[6] After Sophia Fry's death, he married Florence Bates in 1902.[5]