Alexander Fry was an English entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera.

In 1838 Alexander Fry entered his father’s mercantile business house in Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...

, Brazil. He became a partner in 1843.Except for once returning to England to marry he lived in Rio until 1854 when he moved to London. He still visited Rio after this year.
Fry and his young wife lived at Norwood

Norwood

- Australia :* Norwood Secondary College, Secondary School in Ringwood, Victoria.* Norwood, South Australia, suburb of Adelaide**Electoral district of Norwood, a state electoral district in South Australia...

. They had no children.
Alexander Fry bequeathed his collection of some 200,000 specimens to the Natural History Museum, London

Natural History Museum

The Natural History Museum is one of three large museums on Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London, England . Its main frontage is on Cromwell Road...

. The collection is worldwide but especially rich in South American insects, Longicornia and Curculionidae

Curculionidae

Curculionidae is the family of the "true" weevils . It was formerly recognized in 1998 as the largest of any animal family, with over 40,000 species described worldwide at that time...

.He also donated his library of 611 volumes to the museum.

Alexander Fry became a Member of the Entomological Society of London in 1885.

Fry was an enthusiastic collector and in addition to his own beetles he added by purchase the collections of Frederic Parry

Frederic John Sidney Parry

Frederic John Sidney Parry was an English entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera, principally Lucanidae....

 (Longicornia), Alfred Russel Wallace

Alfred Russel Wallace

Alfred Russel Wallace, OM, FRS was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist...

, William Doherty

William Doherty

William Doherty was an American entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera and later also collected birds for the Natural History Museum at Tring ....

, and the ‘’very fine’’ series collected by John Whitehead

John Whitehead (explorer)

John Whitehead was an English explorer, naturalist and professional collector of bird specimens.Whitehead travelled in Malacca, North Borneo, Java, and Palawan between 1885 and 1888, where he collected a number of zoological specimens new to science, including Whitehead's Broadbill , writing up...

 at Kinabalu

Mount Kinabalu

Mount Kinabalu is a prominent mountain on the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia. It is located in the East Malaysian state of Sabah and is protected as Kinabalu National Park, a World Heritage Site. Kinabalu is the tallest peak in Borneo's Crocker Range and is the tallest mountain in the Malay...

, which included all the types described by Henry Walter Bates

Henry Walter Bates

Henry Walter Bates FRS FLS FGS was an English naturalist and explorer who gave the first scientific account of mimicry in animals. He was most famous for his expedition to the Amazon with Alfred Russel Wallace in 1848. Wallace returned in 1852, but lost his collection in a shipwreck...

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He did no descriptive work but many parts of his collection were named by other entomologists and it is therefore type rich.