Peter Derek Fry was born in High Wycombe on 26 May 1931. He was educated at Royal Grammar School and Worcester College, Oxford. He joined the Wycombe Young Conservatives in 1949 and the Oxford University Conservative Association in 1951. His first marriage to Edna Roberts was dissolved, and he subsequently married Helen Claire Mitchell in 1982.
Fry worked as insurance broker and in his family retail business before serving as a Conservative councillor on Buckinghamshire County Council between 1961 and 1967. Fry unsuccessfully ran for Parliament inNottingham Northin 1964 andWillesden Eastin 1966, before being elected for Wellingboroughin a 1969 by-election. He held the seat until losing by a small margin in 1997.
Peter Fry died on 11 May, 2015.