Fry, Mrs. Elizabeth, philanthropist, born at Norwich, third daughter of John Gurney, the Quaker banker; married Joseph Fry of Plashet, Essex; devoted her life to prison reform and the reform of criminals, as well as other benevolent enterprises; she has been called “the female Howard” (1780‒1845).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Froude, William * Fuad-Mahmed, Pasha