Henry Fry

Henry Kenneth Fry (born 25 May 1886 North Adelaide, South Australia ) was an Australian physician and anthropologist, and Medical Officer for the City of Adelaide.

Education Fry attended University of Adelaide and received his BSc 1905, MBBS 1908, MD 1934.

Fry was a 1909 Rhodes Scholar (Balliol) Obtained another BSc, and diplomas in public health and anthropology, in 1912. for supervising the evacuation of the wounded while under constant shell-fire at Pozières and Sausage Valley in July–August of that year. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1917, and given command of the 13th Field Ambulance.

Post-war career Fry returned to Australia in 1918, where he married Dorothy Editha Deeley with Anglican rites at the Church of the Epiphany, Crafers on 21 October 1918. (Sir) John Cleland, Frederic Wood Jones, Robert Henry Pulleine, and Archibald Watson. His anthropological work took him on numerous medical, ethnological, and anthropological research expeditions to Aboriginal lands in Central Australia between 1929 and 1937. Beginning in 1930 he published over twenty scientific papers on Aboriginal kinship, psychology and mythology.

Moving to Crafers in 1937, Fry was appoint public health officer for the City of Adelaide, a position he occupied part-time. Manuscript and typescript papers on kinship, education and other aspects of Aboriginal cultures and on the peoples of Melville and Bathurst Islands; notebooks and logs kept on various expeditions with notebooks for psychological tests; correspondence 1933-57 and with Ursula McConnel on the social organisation of Aboriginal cultures 1950–52; bibliography of papers on anthropology by South Australian research workers 1927–38; transcription from the original of 'A Short History of New Australia' by H.K. Fry; miscellaneous paintings, extracts, maps and a notebook dated 1875 kept by Dr. Lumbers.