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[graham123]

who was elizebeth fry

[daithebus]

English quaker philanthropist and one of the chief promoters of prison reform in europe

[football]

Ancestor of Steven Fry. & maybe Colin Fry.

[tartanwiz]

She was not the ancestor of Stephen Fry, she was one of the Quaker family of chocolate manufacturers from the English North (e.g. Fry's Chocolate Cream, Fry's Turkish Delight), and Stephen Fry proudly denies any connection with them. But yes, she was a liberal reformer, campaigning for prison reforms.

[tartanwiz]

More on Lizzie Fry (1780-1845) She formed an association for the improvement of (women's) prison conditions in 1817, and worked with her brother Joseph Gurney on a report on prison conditions and reform (1819), which had a great influence. Elizabeth's maiden name was Gurney, but she married into the Fry (chocolate manufacturers) family. Incidentally, the other great chocolate manufacturing family, the Cadburys, were also Quakers and also from the North. Both families were opposed to slavery, and they married into each other. Eventually their companies merged, Cadbury's becoming the dominant business. I don't know about their descendants, but at least one of them was in a major 70s rock band.

[tartanwiz]

Cadbury's chocolate was always better anyway in my opinion, being sweether and creamier than Fry's, though I still like Fry's Turkish Delight (made to the original Fry's recipe even though owned by Cadbury's. Cadbury's beat all though, including Mars, Nestle, Rowntree's and that tasteless European continental stuff. Have you tried the new Dairy Milk with pieces if biscuit through it? Absolutely de-scrumptious! By the way, I don't work for Cadbury's.

[tartanwiz]

Do you want to know what the worst chocolate in the world is? It's Hershey's, which Americans eat. I don't know, they put people into space, they make the greatest movies and in many ways have the best of everything, but their chocolate is garbage. Barbarians!

[flirty41]

Well, as the 'topic' has moved on to choccie, I thought I'd take 'time-out' to give the thread a 'boost'. I'd go as far as 'mars' or the 'milky way' for some choccie. I'd search the 'galaxy' if I had to! When I get home of an evening I just 'flake' out with a bar! If I go on a 'picnic' I always like to take some with me to eat while I sit by the lake, dropping in pebbles to make it 'ripple', and then I'll nod off and 'dream' - of chocolate! :-D

[IndieSinger]

Elizabeth Fry invented English �5 notes.

[tartanwiz]

Flirty - you are quite a 'smartie' !

[IndieSinger]

Tartanwiz - you are quite a 'Mars Bar' !



Have I missed the point again?

[pustule]

well I think you have all imbibed a little too freely of the herb an are all suffering from the MUNCHIES

[darth vader]

Sorry but i have to jump in here. Fry's chocolate cream is the daddy of all choccy bars. It is manna from nirvana.

[bethbrowsing]

She didn't invent the �5 note! She is on it, in honour of contribution to society :-) The Bank of England "invents" the notes!

[chilled_v]

Im one of her decendants if that answers your question. Im from the Robinson line.... a million times removed... there are quite a few books on Elisabeth if you want to know more...