Thomas Fryer

Thomas Skeeles Fryer DL JP (30 June 1793 — 1 September 1861) was an English first-class cricketer.

The son of Daniel Dryer and Elizabeth Skeeles, he was born at Chatteris in June 1793.[1] By profession, he was a brewer and later a brickmaker.[2] Fryer was appointed Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire in January 1826.[3] He had a keen interest in cricket and was president of Chatteris Cricket Club; during his presidency the club was ambitious and engaged many of the leading Cambridgeshire cricketers of the time, including Daniel Hayward, Robert Glasscock and Francis Fenner.[4] Fryer himself played first-class cricket for Cambridge Town Club twice against the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in 1832. The first of these was played at Lord's, while the second was played at Chatteris.[5] However, Fryer failed to score any runs in the two innings in which he batted.[6] In later life he was a deputy lieutenant for Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, and was additionally a justice of the peace for the two counties.[7] In August 1859, he was declared bankrupt.[2] Fryer died in September 1861 at Hemingford Abbots, Huntingdonshire.[7]