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Admitted 3 February, 1592-3.

Son of Bernard Frobisher of Altofts, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. The admission was made "with the assent of all the Masters of the Bench," doubtless in recognition of his great and famous services. Frobisher was born near Doncaster in 1535 or 1536, and went early to sea, his first efforts being directed to discover a north-west passage to China. To effect this object he conducted three expeditions in 1576—7. He subsequently served with Sir Francis Drake in the West Indies, and in 1588 commanded the "Triumph" against the Spanish Armada. In 1590 he commanded a fleet sent against the coasts of Spain, and it was after his return from this expedition that his admission, along with his comrades (q.v.) and Admiral Norris (q.v.), took place. He died two years later of a wound received off Brest, and was buried at Plymouth.

Admitted 11 November, 1631.

Son and heir of William Fry of Iwerneminster, Dorsetshire. He sat in the Long Parliament for Shaltesbury, and was one of the Commissioners appointed to try the king, but avoided sitting, and did not sign the warrant. He was charged by the rigid Presbyterians with Unitarian leanings and with blasphemy, and in 1651 his books were ordered to be burned in Palace Yard. These books were entitled The Accuser Shamed, or a Pair of Bellows to Blow off the Dust cast by Col. John Downs (1648), Downs being his accuser of heresy; and The Clergy in their Colours, or a Brief Character of them (1659), the "clergy" being the orthodox divines of the day.

Admitted 31 May, 1653.

He is entered on the Register as "John Fryer of London, Doctor in Physic" He was the eldest son of Thomas Fryer, M.D. He studied at Padua, and was admitted to the College of Physicians in 1612, and was elected an honorary Fellow in 1664. He died 12 Nov. 1672, at the great age of 96.

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Admitted 22 January, 1825.

Third son of Peter Gedge of Bury St. Edmunds, where he was born in 1832. He was educated at the Grammar School there, and at Cambridge, where he graduated Fourteenth Wrangler and first class in Classics in 1824. He abandoned the Bar, and took Holy Orders. In 1835 he became second master of King Edward's School, Birmingham, and in 1859 Vicar of All Saints, Northampton. In his later years he devoted himself greatly to the cause of Christian missions. He died August, 1883.