C. B. Fry
Cricket Player
1872 – 1956
Who was C. B. Fry?
Charles Burgess Fry, known as C. B. Fry, was an English polymath; an outstanding sportsman, politician, diplomat, academic, teacher, writer, editor and publisher, who is best remembered for his career as a cricketer. John Arlott described him with the words: "Charles Fry could be autocratic, angry and self-willed: he was also magnanimous, extravagant, generous, elegant, brilliant – and fun ... he was probably the most variously gifted Englishman of any age."
Fry's achievements on the sporting field included representing England at both cricket and football, an FA Cup Final appearance for Southampton F.C. and equalling the then-world record for the long jump. He also reputedly turned down the throne of Albania. In later life, he suffered mental health problems, but even well into his seventies he claimed he was still able to perform his party trick: leaping from a stationary position backwards onto a mantelpiece.
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- Born
- Apr 25, 1872
Croydon - Nationality
- England
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- Wadham College, Oxford
Classics
- Wadham College, Oxford
- Employment
- Charterhouse School
- Died
- Sep 7, 1956
Hampstead
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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