Cb fry autobiography meaning

CB Fry, the epitome of the great all-rounder.

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  • Charles Burgess Fry (25 April 1872 – 7 September 1956) was an English sportsman, teacher, writer, editor and publisher, who is best remembered for his career.
  • CB Fry was an unusual man.
  • Fry's laudatory statements about Hitler persisted through his autobiography's third impression in July 1941 but appear to have been purged in the fourth.

    • Charles Burgess Fry (25 April 1872 – 7 September 1956) was an English sportsman, teacher, writer, editor and publisher, who is best remembered for his career..

    Who was CB Fry and what did he do

    It's easier to say what he didn'tdo: invent the Internet, split the atom, discover the source of the Nile, appear on Celebrity Big Brother, hitch-hike round South America, DJ at the Ministry of Sound, become King of Albania...

    Hold on, what's that about Albania

    CB Fry never became King of Albania - something that millions of people have similarly failed to do throughout history.

    Where Fry is different is that, unlike most mere mortals, he was offered the throne - and nearly said yes!

    Now I'm really confused.

    Best to start at the beginning. Charles Burgess Fry was born in West Croydon in 1872.

    He won a scholarship to Oxford University where his outstanding all-round abilities earned him the nicknames 'Charles III', 'Almighty' and 'Lord Oxford'. Fry did little to play down the adulation, which reflected academic brilliance (obtaining a first class degree with honours), intellectual prowess (a brilliant conversationalist, he was ch