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Ruth Fry
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Born
Anna Ruth Fry
(1878-09-04 ) 4 September 1878
Highgate, London, UK
Died 26 April 1962(1962-04-26) (aged 83 ) Occupation(s ) Writer, peace activist Known for Pacifist activisim from a Quaker perspective
Anna Ruth Fry , usually known as Ruth Fry (4 September 1878 – 26 April 1962), was a British Quaker writer, pacifist and peace activist.
Life
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Ruth was born in Highgate , London , into a Quaker family - her father was Sir Edward Fry , a judge and lawyer who became known worldwide for his skilled work as a negotiator at the Hague Tribunal in 1907 - and she was educated at home. She then worked as a peace activist and a writer, serving as treasurer of the Boer Home Industries Commission during the Boer War , as general secretary of the Friends War Victims Relief Committee (a committee organised by British Quakers to provide help for refugees and victims of the First World War ) from 1914 to 1924, as first chairman of the Russian Famine Relief Fund in 1921, as the secretary for the National Council for the Prevention of War in 1926-27, and as the treasurer of the London branch of the War Resisters' International in 1936-1937. She died on 26 April 1962, aged 83.
Literary works
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In the First World War she toured the war zones as a traveling commissioner, writing about the relief efforts in her book A Quaker Adventure (1926). She was appointed to the editorial board of the Fellowship of Reconciliation 's journal Reconciliation in 1935. She published a number of pamphlets and leaflets on pacifism and nonviolence in action.
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She appears as a character in Tony Harrison 's 2008 play Fram , played in its premiere at the National Theatre by Clare Lawrence .
Further reading
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The Times , Saturday, Apr 28, 1962; pg. 12; Issue 55377; col B: OBITUARY-Miss Ruth Fry Relief Work With The Quakers.
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