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A genealogy of the Selwyn family
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 1908 - 1988 (80 years)
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| Name |
Hugh Selwyn Fry |
| Prefix |
Rev. |
| Suffix |
OBE |
| Born |
14 Apr 1908 |
Raunds, Northamptonshire  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
29 Aug 1988 |
Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England |
| Age |
80 years |
| Person ID |
I0426 |
The Selwyn Family Tree |
| Last Modified |
23 Mar 2013 |
| Father |
Rev. Canon Herbert Kearsley Fry, b. 1875, Liverpool, Lancashire , d. 26 Feb 1937, Stamford, Lincolnshire (Age 62 years) |
| Mother |
Margaret Elizabeth Selwyn, b. 1872, Lichfield , d. 29 Jul 1930, Stamford, Huntingdonshire, England (Age 58 years) |
| Married |
1905 |
Lichfield Cathedral, Lichfield, Staffordshire |
| Family ID |
F053 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- From http://www.dnw.co.uk/medals/auctionarchive/searchcataloguearchive/itemdetail.lasso?itemid=7869
M.I.D. London Gazette 3 October,1952, "for distinguished service in operations in Korean waters":- The Reverend Hugh Selwyn Fry, Chaplain, Royal Navy, H.M.S. Ceylon.
O.B.E. London Gazette 1 January, 1963.
Hugh Selwyn Fry was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. 1930, M.A. 1934; Chaplain, R.N.V.R., 1943-47; Chaplain, R.N., 1947-63. Chaplain of the cruiser Ceylon which, together with the Auxiliary Aircraft Carrier Unicorn, conveyed the first British troops (1 A&SH and 1 Middx. respectively) to land in Korea, at Pusan on 29 August, 1950. The Reverend Fry injured his leg in Korea. After retiring from the Royal Navy in 1963 he became Vicar of Stanford-in-the-Vale, Faringdon, Berkshire, and died in 1989.
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