Joseph Storrs Fry (6 August 1826 – 7 July 1913) was a member of the

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Fry family, head of the family chocolate firm of J. S. Fry & Sons and a philanthropist. He assumed control of the company as chairman in 1878 and built it up from 56 workers to a factory employing 3,000 people in Union Street, Bristol. He never married and his fortune was mostly inherited by his 37 nephews and nieces including

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, and

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(though £42,000 was split amongst employees with more than 5 years of service amongst other legacies). Control of the family firm passed to various relations, not all of whom were on speaking terms with each other, who thereafter merged it with

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in 1919. Joseph Storrs Fry was also clerk for the

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for 1870–1875 and 1881–1889.

References

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article by Robert Fitzgerald, ‘Fry, Joseph Storrs (1826–1913)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200

accessed 15 Sept 2007. {{DEFAULTSORT:Fry, Joseph Storrs 1826 births 1913 deaths English Quakers Joseph Storrs Businesspeople from Bristol 19th-century English businesspeople