Sir Roger Fry

I was born in Portsmouth and trained as a teacher after graduating from King’s College London. After teaching posts in Portsmouth and Hertfordshire I became a lecturer at a private university in Madrid, Spain, which began a career in education overseas which has spanned 50 years. After establishing my first private English curriculum school in Madrid that grew rapidly to become a member of the Headmaster and Headmistresses Conference (HMC), I established other British schools in Spain, elsewhere in Europe and Central America as well as a small boarding school for overseas students in England. More recently I founded a multi academy trust in England with schools in Portsmouth, Sussex and Berkshire.

My passion for quality in education led me to chair and develop an international association for British schools overseas. From that position I negotiated with the British Department for Education the creation of inspectorates for schools abroad, subject to OFSTED, enabling them to obtain British Government accreditation. I also established a fund at Trinity for overseas students.

My work in British international education brought me the honour of a Knighthood, an Honorary Fellowship at Trinity College Oxford and an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Portsmouth.

I am now in semi-retirement and with my Spanish wife, Begoña, we divide our time between our Portsmouth and our Spanish homes.