English architect and writer. Upon Gropius's emigration to London, the two formed a partnership which lasted from 1934 to 1937. Fry helped found the MARS group (Modern Architectural Research Group), an organization that played a prominent role in supporting British modernism. His activities with the MARS Group included the 1938 exhibition New Architecture and the Plan of London Proposal in 1942. In 1935, he invited Breuer to participate in a furniture exhibition in the Mansard Gallery at the shop of Heal and Sons. During World War II, Fry served in the Royal Engineers and eventually became Town Planning Adviser to the resident minister in West Africa. He and his wife, Jane Drew, formed Fry, Drew and Partners in 1946 and subsequently received commissions for a number of educational buildings in Africa. As Senior Architects for the construction of Chandigarh, a new capital city for the Punjab, Fry and Drew were instrumental in bringing Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret into the project.