Talk:Roger Fry

Quaker
What evidence is available to indicate that he was a Quaker? The article categorises him as an "English Quaker". === Vernon White (talk)  00:11, 26 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Well he was raised Quaker but I don't think he was one as an adult. The person adding the cat Quaker seems to have gone overboard and listing even former Quakers as Quakers.--Erp 20:41, 27 November 2006 (UTC)


 * As far as I know he wasn't a quaker in his adulthood. I'll have ask his grandson (Alan Fry) though next time we chat.--TheDrew 05:36, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Hi, I don't have much time to edit right now, but I have a couple of leads on the evidence that Roger Fry is a Quaker.
 * https://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/archive-centre/roger-eliot-fry-1866-1934
 * sets out the basics, and beyond that, his family tree includes more prominent names in the Quaker lineage. Pinckney2007 (talk) 15:13, 5 October 2022 (UTC)
 * No one is disputing that his family was mostly Quaker and many were prominent Quakers (his uncle Joseph Storrs Fry was even clerk of the London Yearly meeting for several years) and that he was raised in the Quaker tradition; however, the question is whether he as an adult considered himself Quaker. Margery Fry his sister is another with a question mark.  Note unless officially disowned or officially resigning, they probably would have been considered birthright Friends (that policy was discontinued in the 1940s in the UK and now children raised in a Quaker family have to formally apply to be members when old enough  rather than automatically considered members). Erp (talk) 19:40, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

Place of death
The blue plaque, placed by the Marchmont Association at Pret A Manger, the site of 48, Bernard Street, says he died there. But Frances Spalding in her 1980 the Roger Fry, Art and Life, on page 274, says that he slipped on rug and broke his pelvis at his home, but was then taken, after Kenneth Clark called a doctor, to the Royal Free Hospital where he fell into a coma and died two days later of heart failure. Martinevans123 (talk) 21:24, 20 October 2015 (UTC)