Charles Anthony Fry (14 January 1940 – 27 October 2024) was an English first-class cricketer and cricket administrator.
Life and career
The son of the cricketer Stephen Fry and the grandson of the sportsman C. B. Fry, Charles Fry was born in January 1940 at Henley-in-Arden, Warwickshire. He was educated at Repton School, before matriculating to Trinity College, Oxford.
While studying at Oxford, Fry played first-class cricket for Oxford University Cricket Club, making his debut for the club against Yorkshire at Oxford in 1959. He scored 576 runs at an average of 26.18 in debut season, including a maiden century against the Free Foresters, sharing an unbroken fifth-wicket partnership of 256 with Abbas Ali Baig which remained a first-class record for the fifth wicket for Oxford until 2017, when it was broken by Dan Escott's and Matthew Naylor's partnership of 267. He gained his blue in this season, when he played against Cambridge University in The University Match at Lord's.
The following season, Fry made fifteen first-class appearances for Oxford in 1960 and made his second appearance in The University Match, He followed in the footsteps of both his father and grandfather, C. B. Fry in playing for Hampshire. As of , this remains the only instance of three generations of one family playing for the county. The following season, having graduated from Oxford, he appeared twice for Northamptonshire against Cambridge University at Northampton, and Essex in the County Championship at Colchester. succeeding Sir Tim Rice as its president in 2003. At the end of his twelve-month presidency, he was succeeded by Tom Graveney, who was the first former professional cricketer to hold the post. In addition to holding the presidency, Fry was chairman of both the MCC and the MCC Foundation.