Background
Peter George Robin Fry was born in 1931, and was the third child and only son of a distinguished naval officer (created Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in the 1953 New Year Honours) and pianist.
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Peter George Robin Fry was born in 1931, and was the third child and only son of a distinguished naval officer (created Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in the 1953 New Year Honours) and pianist.
He was educated at Christ Church Cathedral School, Oxford, then Lancing College in West Sussex, and Saint Thomas"s Hospital Medical School, London, but did not do well at either of the latter two institutions.
In his youth, he added Somerset to his surname by deed poll, the Fry family originating from Wells in that county, and Plantagenet was a nickname which he adopted at university, relating to his advocacy of Richard III. After failing his exams, he had to leave Saint Thomas"s after a year. From this point on his father refused to subsidise him any more, so Fry found employment as a librarian and projectionist with the National Film Board of Canada. After spending all his money, and failing another degree, Fry became a schoolteacher at Wallop School in Weybridge, Surrey.
In 1954, Fry went to Oxford University to study law and history.
He started the Council for Independent Archaeology. Fry was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
During the 1950s and 1960s, Fry worked as a public relations executive and, amongst other roles, served as an information officer for the Association of Architects and Surveyors and for the Ministry of Public Building and Works. In 1996, Fry was told he was dying of bowel cancer, but he refused treatment, and suffocated himself with a plastic bag at his home in Wattisfield, Suffolk at the age of 65, after writing a letter explaining his actions to the coroner.
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