William Fry (British Army officer)

Major-General Sir William Fry KCVO CB (8 September 1858 – 30 March 1934) was a British Army officer who became Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man.

Military career
Fry joined the British Army in 1878 and served in the Second Anglo-Afghan War as well as the Second Boer War. He was appointed Commandant of the Mounted Infantry School at Bulford in 1905, Brigadier General commanding the Lancashire Regiment District in 1907 and Commander of the East Lancashire Division in 1908. He went on to be Deputy Director General of the Territorial Force in 1910 and Commander of the 1st London Division of the Territorial Force in 1912. He served in World War I as Commander of 30th Division and then as Major-General in Charge of Administration in Ireland until his retirement in 1919. He was also Colonel of the West Yorkshire Regiment.

In retirement he became Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man. He lived at Winkfield in Berkshire.

Family
In 1886 he married Ellen Margaret Goldie-Taubman.