Charles Anthony Fry who died 27 October, 2024, aged 84, was sometime president and chairman of Marylebone Cricket Club, and scion of landed gentry families.
He was born 14 January, 1940, the third son of the cricketer Stephen Hope Fry (1900-1979), and his wife the former Gladys Yvonne Blunt (1905-2001), and was grandson of the great sportsman C.B. Fry (1872-1956), and his wife the former Beatrice Holme-Sumner (1862-1946), of that landed family, descended from the Kingscote landed gentry family, and Lieutenant-General the 1st Baron Bloomfield, GCB, GCH, PC (1768-1846).
Charles Fry, while studying at Oxford, played first-class cricket for Oxford University Cricket Club, making his debut for the club against Yorkshire at Oxford in 1959.
He married Jane Vigors, by whom he had three children, Benjamin, James and Annabelle.
The 1st Baron Bloomfield > Hon Harriott Bloomfield (1806-1901) > Georgina Kingscote (1835-1912) > Beatrice Holme-Sumner (1862-1946) > Stephen Hope Fry (1900-79) > Charles Fry (1940-2024)
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