Frere
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Frere is a surname
Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...

 shared by several notable people, among them being:
  • Bartholomew Frere
    Bartholomew Frere
    -Life:Frere was born in 1776, the fifth son of John Frere, F.R.S., M.P. for Norwich, and a younger brother of John Hookham Frere and William Frere. He proceeded B.A. at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1799, and M.A. in 1806...

     (1776-1851), English diplomat
  • Ellenor Fenn
    Ellenor Fenn
    Ellenor Fenn was a prolific 18th-century writer of children's books.-Early life:Fenn was born on 12 March 1743/44 in Westhorpe, Suffolk to Sheppard and Susanna Frere. John Frere was her elder brother and John Hookham Frere her nephew. In 1766 she married the antiquarian John Fenn and moved with...

     née Frere (1743-1813), English writer
  • Henry Frere
    Henry Frere
    Henry Tobias Frere was an English cricketer. Frere was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm roundarm fast and who played occasionally as a wicketkeeper....

     (1830–1881), English cricketer
  • Sir Henry Bartle Frere
    Henry Bartle Frere
    Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere, 1st Baronet, GCB, GCSI, was a British colonial administrator.-Early life:Frere was born at Clydach House, Clydach, Monmouthshire, the son of Edward Frere, manager of Clydach Ironworks...

     (1815-1884), British colonial administrator
  • James Frere
    James Frere
    James Arnold Frere, FSA was an officer of arms at the College of Arms in London.-Biography:He was the only son of John Geoffrey Frere of Hartley and Violet Ivy Sparks. Following military service in the Intelligence Corps, he began his heraldic career on 24 February 1948 when he was appointed...

     (1920-1994), Chester Herald at the College of Arms in London
  • James Hatley Frere
    James Hatley Frere
    -Life:Frere was the sixth son of John Frere, of Roydon, South Norfolk, and Beddington, Surrey, by Jane, daughter and heiress of John Hookham of London. He married, 15 June 1809, Merian, second daughter of Matthew Martin, F.R.S., of Poets' Corner, Westminster, by whom he had five sons.Frere met...

     (1779–1866), English writer on prophecy
  • John Frere
    John Frere
    John Frere was an English antiquary and a pioneering discoverer of Old Stone Age or Palaeolithic tools in association with large extinct animals at Hoxne, Suffolk in 1797.-Life:...

     (1740–1807), English antiquary
  • John Hookham Frere
    John Hookham Frere
    John Hookham Frere PC was an English diplomat and author.Frere was born in London. His father, John Frere, the member of a Suffolk family, had been educated at Caius College, Cambridge, and would have been senior wrangler in 1763 but for the competition of William Paley; his mother, Jane,...

     (1769-1846), English diplomat, author and poet
  • Mary Frere
    Mary Frere
    Mary Eliza Isabella Frere was an English author of works regarding India. In 1868 Frere published the first English-language field-collected book of Indian storytales, Old Deccan Days....

     (1845–1911), English writer
  • Professor Sheppard Frere
    Sheppard Frere
    Professor Sheppard Sunderland Frere, CBE, FSA, FBA is a former British historian and archaeologist who studied the Roman Empire.-Biography:...

     (1916-), British historian and archaeologist
  • Toby Frere
    Toby Frere
    Vice Admiral Sir Richard Tobias Frere KCB is a former Royal Navy officer who ended his career as Chief of Fleet Support.-Naval career:...

     (1948-), retired Royal navy vice-admiral
  • Walter Frere
    Walter Frere
    Walter Howard Frere, CR was a co-founder of an Anglican religious order, the Community of the Resurrection and later bishop of Truro...

     (1863-1938), monk and bishop
  • William Frere
    William Frere
    William Frere , was an English lawyer and academic, a law-serjeant and Master of Downing College, Cambridge.-Life:Frere was the fourth son of John Frere of Roydon, Norfolk, and younger brother of John Hookham Frere. He was born 28 November 1775. He was sent to Felsted School and Eton College, and...

     (1775–1836), English lawyer and academic

See also

  • Frère
    Frere
    Frere is a surname shared by several notable people, among them being:* Bartholomew Frere , English diplomat* Ellenor Fenn née Frere , English writer* Henry Frere , English cricketer...

  • Friar
    Friar
    A friar is a member of one of the mendicant orders.-Friars and monks:...

  • Fryar (disambiguation)
  • Freer (disambiguation)
  • Fryer (surname)
    Fryer (surname)
    Frere/Freer/Fryer/Friar/Fryar are common surnames.A variety of speculative derivations and connections exist concerning the origins of this surname....

  • Frier
    Frier
    Frier is a surname of Germanic origin. The name refers to:*Annette Frier , German actress and comedian*Helga Frier , Danish actress*Mike Frier , American professional football player...

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