Son of Herbert Fortescue Fryer and did much of his early entomological work with his father as is clear from their many joint publications (see above). Fryer was a botanist by profession becoming Director of the Plant Pathological Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture. He did publish a number of notes on Coleoptera (and other orders) in his own right including Ceuthorhynchidius pulvinatus Gyll in EMM., 65, 1929, pp.64-65; ‘Brachypterolus vestitus, Kies in Britain’ ibid.., pp.101-102; ‘A variety of Philonthus laminatus Creutz’, ibid., 68, 1932, pp.187-188 (found in his father's collection which he presumably inherited); ‘The Colorado Beetle’, ibid., 70, 1934, pp.116-117, and ‘Time of flight of beetles of the genus Agriotes’, ibid., 77, 1941, p.280. There is a general collection of insects apparently made by Fryer in Ceylon in the Cambridge Museum dated 28 November 1912; and he gave two gifts of insects to the NHM (1914.112 and 1916.231) which included some of the specimens described by his father and himself as new to Britain. FES. (MD 12/02)