Fry, Miers and Co
of 8 Great Winchester Street, London, E.C
1866 Francis Charles Miers, in conjunction with his brother-in-law (Alexander Fry who was a merchant with connections in Brazil), established the mercantile and engineering firm of Fry, Miers and Co., in London, involved in ordering and inspecting the construction of steam-vessels, locomotives, rolling-stock, bridge-work, etc, for railways and other native undertakings in Brazil.
1884 Francis Charles Miers left the Partnership with Alexander Fry, William Ochsenbein, and Francis Robert Miers, under the style of Fry, Miers, and Co., of 8, Great Winchester-street, in the city of London, as Merchants and Commission Agents. The business was to be carried on by the remaining partners[1]
1886 William Ochsenbein left the Partnership with Alexander Fry, and Francis Robert Miers, of Suffolk House, Laurence Pountney Hill, in the city of London, Merchants, carrying on business under the style of Fry, Miers, and Co.; the business was carried on by Alexander Fry and Francis Robert Miers[2]
1890 Alexander Fry left the partnership with Francis Robert Miers and John Clarence Hay Pierson as Fry, Miers. and Co.; Samuel Fry joined the partnership[3]
1892 Alexander Fry joined the partnership of John Clarence Hay Pierson and Samuel Fry, carrying on business as Merchants, at Suffolk House, Laurence Pountney-hill, in the city of London, under the style or firm of Fry, Miers, and Co.[4]
1897 Alexander Fry left the partnership[5]
1902 John Pierson died[6]
1906 Albert Ernest Sculthorpe Minett joined the company
The business continued as Brazilian merchants until about 1923
1923 A deed of arrangement was presented to creditors[7]