Lewis Fry

Lewis Fry PC DL, (16 April 1832 – 10 September 1921) was a Quaker, lawyer, philanthropist and a Liberal and later Liberal and Unionist politician who sat in the House of Commons in three spells between 1878 and 1900.

Fry was the son of Joseph Fry (1795–1879) and his wife Mary Anne Swaine (1897-1896) and was a member of the Fry family known for their chocolate business. He was articled to a Quaker Solicitor, Joseph Bevan Braithwaite, who had also trained his elder brother, Edward Fry. He was admitted in 1854 and practiced in Bristol until he entered Parliament.

Fry was Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for Bristol between 1878 and 1885, and a Liberal and Unionist for Bristol North between 1885–1892 and 1895–1900.

He was sworn a member of the Privy Council after the accession of King Edward VII on 24 January 1901 and was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Gloucestershire shortly thereafter.

He was Chairman of Parliamentary Committee on Town Holdings, 1886–1892 and author of two reports of same.

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