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Education

Huddersfield College, and University of London.

Personal life

Married Vivienne Hodgson, 1953. One son

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Career

Deputy Chief Scientific Officer, Windermere Laboratory, Freshwater Biological Association 1981-1988. Honorary Professor, University of Lancaster since 1988.

Honours

He was elected a

Fellow of the Royal Society Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the judges of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematic ...

in 1972. Awarded the Zoological Society of London Frink Medal in 1983 and the

Linnean Medal The Linnean Medal of the Linnean Society of London was established in 1888, and is awarded annually to alternately a botanist or a zoologist or (as has been common since 1958) to one of each in the same year. The medal was of gold until 1976, and ...

in 1987.

Tribute

Fish named after Fryer: *The cichlid '' Alticorpus geoffreyi'' Snoeks & Walapa 2004 *The Lake Malawi cichlid '' Sciaenochromis fryeri'' Konings, 1993

Selected publications

References

1927 births Living people Fellows of the Royal Society 20th-century British biologists {{UK-biologist-stub