Rev. Canon Herbert Kearsley Fry: The genealogy of the Selwyn and related families.

1875 - 1937 (62 years)

Generation: 1

Rev. Canon Herbert Kearsley Fry was born in 1875 in Liverpool, Lancashire; died on 26 Feb 1937 in Stamford, Lincolnshire.

Herbert married Margaret Elizabeth Selwyn in 1905 in Lichfield Cathedral, Lichfield, Staffordshire. Margaret (daughter of The Rt. Rev. John Richardson Selwyn and Clara Long Innes) was born in 1872 in Lichfield; died on 29 Jul 1930 in Stamford, Huntingdonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Children:

2. Rev. Hugh Selwyn Fry, OBE was born on 14 Apr 1908 in Raunds, Northamptonshire; died on 29 Aug 1988 in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England.

Generation: 2

Rev. Hugh Selwyn Fry, OBE

(1.Herbert¹) was born on 14 Apr 1908 in Raunds, Northamptonshire; died on 29 Aug 1988 in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England.

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.