Identity area
Reference code
UQFL23
Title
Date(s)
- [189-] -1990 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
3 boxes, 1 parcel.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
John Denis (Jack) Fryer was born in 1895 at Springsure, Queensland, son of Charles George Fryer and his wife Rosina, née Richards. Charles and Rosina had seven children: Elizabeth Stuart (later Gilmour), William Thomas, Charles George, Henry Hardy, John Denis, Richard Alexander James and Walter Ponsonby. Jack won a scholarship to the University of Queensland and commenced study in 1915. By the end of first term, Jack decided to volunteer for military service in the first Australian Imperial Force. He was commissioned in 1916 and went to France where he was gassed in early 1917. After hospitalisation in England, Jack returned to France for the final push to Amiens, in August 1918. There he was again wounded, by a stick bomb. After the war he re-enrolled at the University of Queensland for the first term of 1920 to complete his English honours examinations. His health failed in 1922 and he died in February 1923. In 1926, as a memorial to their former member and vice-president, members of the University Dramatic Society donated £10 to establish a collection of works in Australian literature. The Fryer collection was maintained in the English Department until the 1950s when it became part of the University of Queensland Library.
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Biographical history
Frederick Walter Robinson (known as "Doc Robbie") was born in Sydney in 1888. He was educated at Sydney High, University of Sydney and the University of Jena. He was Associate Professor of Modern Languages at Royal Military College Duntroon (1913-1932), and Captain and Intelligence Officer in the AIF (1915-1919). F.W. Robinson lectured in English and German at The University of Queensland (1923-1945), and later became Associate Professor of English (1946-1958). He was in the General Staff Office as a Major (Intelligence) in 1941-42. He presented the Commonwealth Literary Fund Australian Literature Seminars and Lectures at The University of Queensland in 1944 and 1958, and at Sydney University in 1946. F.W. Robinson also set up the Fryer Memorial Library of Australian Literature at The University of Queensland. For many years he was associated with the Oxley Library, the Queensland Art Gallery and other cultural institutions. He played a large part in the planning of the University of Queensland at St Lucia. F.W. Robinson died in 1971.
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Elizabeth Stuart Fryer was born on 21 December 1884. She was the eldest child of Charles George Fryer and Rosina, née Richards. Charles and Rosina had seven children: Elizabeth Stuart, William Thomas, Charles George, Henry Hardy, John Denis, Richard Alexander James and Walter Ponsonby. She married James Stephen "Jim" Gilmour on 22 July 1919. They were pioneering pastoralists who took up a selection they called Mount Kelman which was near Springsure, Queensland. They had a daughter Alexis. Elizabeth died in 1984.
Name of creator
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Repository
Archival history
Collection previously titled as: Papers, [189-]-1990
Collection alternatively titled as: John Denis Fryer Collection.
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
Correspondence, school and university records, photographs; Papers, commissions and badges relating to his military service in the First World War. Papers relating to the establishment of the Fryer Library as a memorial to J. Fryer. Also some associated family correspondence and papers.
Selected letters transcribed by Carmel McCarthy in Box 1 Folder 1.
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Conditions governing access
Unrestricted access.
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Language of material
- English
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Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Uploaded finding aid
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
View selected items from the John Denis Fryer Collection via UQ eSpace [link]
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Name access points
- Fryer, John Denis, 1895-1923 (Subject)
- University of Queensland (Subject)
- Fryer Memorial Library (Subject)
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Status
Migrated
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Dates of creation revision deletion
Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.