Graham Fry

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Template:Short description Template:Use British English Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". Sir Graham Holbrook Fry, KCMG (born 20 December 1949) was British High Commissioner to Malaysia from 1998 to 2001 and British Ambassador to Japan from 2004 to 2008.

Fry was born on 20 December 1949.[1] He was educated at Montpelier prep school at Paignton, Devon,Script error: No such module "Unsubst". and graduated from Brasenose College, Oxford University and joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1972.[2] Following language courses at the University of Sheffield and Kamakura he became 2nd Secretary at the British Embassy in Japan in 1974.

Further appointments included the British Embassy Paris and Director, North Asian and Pacific of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.[1] He was High Commissioner to Malaysia from 1998 to 2001.[1] In 2004 he was appointed Ambassador to Japan[3] and he was knighted in the New Year Honours 2006 list.[4] His wife is Lady Toyoko Fry. He has two sons, Gerald and Kenzo.[1][5] Fry retired from the Diplomatic Service in July 2008.[6] Fry has been a director of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust in the period, 2010–2012.[7]

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