After governing successfully the College for the long period of twenty-three years, Father Fryer died on August 15, 1805, of a scorbutic complaint, under which he had laboured for several years. He was the fifteenth President, and to him belongs the praise of having deserved well of the College. During the last two years prior to his death, his duties regarding the government of the House, owing to ill health, had been performed by the Rev. Peter Wilcock,[1] one of the Superiors.
Father Fryer was possessed of good, but not shining, talents; an extraordinary piety was the leading feature in his character and this he incessantly laboured, both by word and example, to instil into those entrusted to his care. He was a strict economist and, notwithstanding the expensive improvements carried on during his administration, he left the funds of the Establishment in a very flourishing condition.
- ↑ Subsequently on his leaving the College for the Mission, Liverpool was the scene of Father Wilcock's labours, and the large Church of St. Antony, in the Scotland Road, is a monument of his zeal and labours.
