Sir Geoffrey Storrs Fry, 1st Baronet, (27 July 1888 – 1960) was private secretary to prime ministers Bonar Law and Stanley Baldwin, and a member of the Fry family.
Robert Vernon Heber-Percy (5 November 1911 – 29 October 1987), known for much of his life as "the Mad Boy", was "an English eccentric in the grand tradition".
Sloane House is a late 18th-century house on Old Church Street in Chelsea, London. The 1991 London: North West volume of the Pevsner Architectural Guides described Sloane House as a "good C18 house of five bays with broad arched doorway of two...
Faringdon House is a Grade I listed 14,510 square feet house in Faringdon, Oxfordshire, England. It was built in about 1770–1785 (1785) for the Poet Laureate Sir Henry James Pye. It became the country home of Lord Berners, who inherited it in 1918.
Ann Jennifer Evelyn Elizabeth Ross (née Fry; 16 March 1916 – 10 December 2003) was a British literary muse who for a time financed The London Magazine. She was the only child of Sir Geoffrey Fry, 1st Baronet and his wife Alathea Gardner. She grew up...
"The Old Vicarage, Grantchester" is a light poem by the English Georgian poet Rupert Brooke (1887–1915), written in Berlin in 1912. Initially titled "The Sentimental Exile", Brooke, with help from his friend Edward Marsh, gave it the title by which...
Oare House is a Grade I listed country house in Oare, Wiltshire, England. The house was built in 1740 for a London wine merchant, Henry Deacon. It was largely remodelled in the early 1920s by the architect Clough Williams-Ellis, for Sir Geoffrey...
Alan John Ross (6 May 1922 – 14 February 2001) was a British poet, writer, editor and publisher.
Geoffrey Hutchings (8 June 1939 – 1 July 2010) was an English stage, film and television actor.
Herbert Colstoun Gardner, 1st Baron Burghclere, (9 June 1846 – 6 May 1921) was a British Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 until he was raised to the peerage in 1895. He served as President of the Board of Agriculture...
