She was Librarian at Somerville (1899–1904). In 1904, she became Warden of the women's residence at Birmingham University. From 1926 to 1930, she was Principal of Somerville College. Her appointment was hailed as "[combining] intellectual distinction, a fine eloquence, and academic experience with the force of character and sympathy which the post demands." The Graduate (Middle Common Room, or MCR) accommodation building at Somerville College is called 'Margery Fry House' in her honour. Somerville College Library holds a collection of her correspondence and papers. Other She was also a governor of the BBC from 1937 to 1938 and a participant in The Brains Trust series starting in 1942. The Fry Housing Trust was established in 1959, in memory of Margery Fry. In 1990, the Margery Fry Award was established in her honour. In the 1940s/1950s she and her sister Ruth lived together in a large Georgian house in Clarendon Road, W11, surrounded by treasures accumulated from around the world. There they occasionally gave magical tea parties for local children. References Bibliography Margery Fry: The Essential Amateur by Enid Huws Jones, Oxford University Press. 1966. "Margery Fry", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Written by Thomas L. Hodgkin, rev. Mark Pottle. The Politics of Penal Reform: Margery Fry and the Howard League (2017) by Ann Logan External links Fry Housing Trust website The official history of Fry's career on the Somerville College website Margery Fry, 1874–1958: a lecture given on Friday 5 July 1974, at the University of Birmingham to celebratethe centenary of the birth of Margery Fry, by Janet Vaughan. Published in 1974, Margery Fry Memorial Trust (Birmingham). Fry's correspondence and papers are now held by Somerville College library 1874 births 1958 deaths Academics from London Margery People educated at Roedean School, East Sussex English activists English women activists English Quakers Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford Fellows of Somerville College, Oxford Principals of Somerville College, Oxford English women judges Prison reformers British reformers People associated with the University of Birmingham BBC Governors English justices of the peace