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Fry (SIR EDWARD British lawyer)

SIR EDWARD. British lawyer.

He was born at Bristol, Eng., in 1827, and was educated at Bristol College and University College, London. He was admitted to the bar in 1854, and became Queen's Council and Bencher of Lincoln's Inn in 1869. He presided over the Royal Commission on the Irish Lord Acts in 1897-1898; was Conciliator in the S. Wales Colliery Dispute in 1898; Chairman of the Departmental Committee on the Patent Laws in 1900; Arbitrator between the United States and Mexico in the Pious Funds case 1902, and Ambassador Extraordinary and First British Plenipotentiary to the Hague Peace Conference in 1907. He was successively Judge of the High Court, of the Chancery Division, and of Appeal. He died in 1918. His works include: "The Doctrine of Election"; "Treatise on the Specific Performance of Contracts"; "British Mosses"; "Studies by the Way."