1. Edward Fry
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Edward Fry talks about his chance at a university education in the 1840s. Fry was excluded from Oxford and Cambridge because of his Quaker religion but enrolled at UCL in 1848 at the age of 21. This extract is taken from a memoir compiled posthumously by Fry’s daughter. Agnes Fry, Memoir of Right Honourable Sir Edward Fry, CBE 1827-1918 (Oxford: OUP, 1921). Voiced by Mark Freeman.
For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/culture/projects/generation-ucl-200-years-student-life-london
Date of episode recording: 2023-09-01
Duration: 00:01:03
Language of episode: English
Guests: Edward Fry
Producer: Produced by Georgina Brewis; Edited by Teresa Baker
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