Fry, Charles Burgess (1872-1956)

English all-round sportsman. At cricket, his principal sport, he made 30,886 first class runs and appeared in 26 tests, four of them as captain. He was capped by England at football in 1901, and the following year appeared in the FA Cup final for Southampton. As a student at Oxford University he equalled the world long jump record with a leap of 7.17 metres in 1893. He founded and edited Fry's Magazine, and was a prominent journalist on sport and other subjects. He commanded the naval training ship Mercury 1909-1950, and served on the Indian delegation to the League of Nations in 1920.

Career highlights

All first-class cricket runs: 30,886; average: 50.22; hundreds: 94; highest score: 258 not out

Test cricket 26 matches; runs: 1,223; average: 32.18; highest score: 144