Career
She was an advocate and campaigner for disabled children and those with learning difficulties and in 1918 became the first female councillor in Somerset. Norah Fry was born and educated in Clifton, Bristol, one of the daughters of Francis James Fry and a relative of Joseph Storrs Fry. She was an advocate for better services for people with learning difficulties.
She was very concerned about the lack of proper schools for disabled children and the shortage of housing for people with learning difficulties.
The Norah Fry Research Centre in the University of Bristol is named after her, as was a hospital in Shepton Mallet.
