William Fry

Sir William Fry, (8 September 1858 – 30 March 1934) was a British Army officer who served in the Second Boer War and the First World War, and later became Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man.

Military career Fry joined the British Army in May 1878, when he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the West Yorkshire Regiment. He served in the Second Anglo-Afghan War 1878–1880, was promoted to lieutenant on 7 January 1880, to captain on 20 January 1886, and to major on 27 July 1898. He stayed in South Africa until after the end of the war in June 1902, and left Cape Town on the SS Orient in October that year. For his service in the war he was mentioned in despatches, received the Queen's Medal with five clasps, and was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB). and placed on half-pay from February 1904 onwards. Reverting to normal pay, he was appointed to succeed Colonel Stuart Peter Rolt as commandant of the School of Instruction for Mounted Infantry at Bulford in September 1905, before becoming brigadier general commanding the Lancashire Regiment District in 1907 and Commander of the East Lancashire Division in 1908.

He served in the First World War as Commander of 30th Division and then as Major-General in Charge of Administration in Ireland until his retirement in 1919. He was also Colonel of the West Yorkshire Regiment.

In retirement he became Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man in 1919. He lived at Winkfield in Berkshire.

Family In 1886, he married Ellen Margaret Goldie-Taubman.