Charles Burgess Fry (25 April 1872 – 7 September 1956) was an English polymath; an outstanding sportsman, politician, diplomat,
academic, teacher, writer, editor and publisher, but is best remembered as a cricketer. John Arlott summed him up thus: "Charles
Fry could be autocratic, angry and self-willed: he was also magnanimous, extravagant, generous, elegant, brilliant - and fun
[... ] he was probably the most variously gifted Englishman of any age.
