John Fry lived much of his life in this house on the edge of Croydon. As one of the great doctors of his generation it is quite fitting that the house is now a functioning general practice surgery. Fry was a 20th Century general practitioner but made his name during the 1960s and 1970s because of the great deal of research he did in many different field of medical science. He helped to take general practices into a new modern age that we now take for granted.