found: Fryer, John. A new account of East-India and Persia, 1698:t.p. (John Fryer, M.D. Cantabrig. and Fellow of the Royal Society) frontispiece (Johannes Fryer M.D., Societatis Regiæ Lond. Socius)
found: DNB(Fryer, John, d. 1733; traveller)
found: LC data base, 3/11/85(hdg.: Fryer, John, d. 1733)
found: Oxford dictionary of national biography, 21 March 2017(Fryer, John (d. 1733), traveller and writer, was the eldest son of William Fryer of London; he was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he matriculated on 13 July 1664 and from where he moved on 23 July 1671 to Pembroke College as a fellow-commoner; Fryer (who also used the spellings Fryar and Friar) took two degrees in medicine, MB in 1671 and an MD twelve years later; on 9 December 1672, left for a lengthy tour of India and Persia undertaken in the interests of the East India Company; returned to England August 1682; in 1698, published A New Account of East India and Persia ... being Nine Years' Travels, Begun in 1672, a book rich in details of natural history and local medical practice; in 1697, elected a fellow of the Royal Society (until 1707); a resident at Bread Street, in the parish of All Hallows, London, when died on 31 March 1733)
found: ACAD, A Cambridge alumni database, 23 March 2017(John Fryer; alias: John Friar; approx. lifespan 1646-1733; Adm. pens. at Trinity College, 1664:07:13; M.B. from Pembroke College, 1671 (Lit. Reg.); M.D. 1683; Incorp. at Oxford University 1683; In 1672 he undertook a tour in India and Persia in the interests of the East India Company, returning to England in 1682, subsequently published an account of his travels; after his return from the East, he and his wife, Anna, resided for several years in the parish of St Benet's (Cambridge, Cambridgeshire), the Church Register recording the baptism of 4 children between 1685 and 1695; F.R.S. 1698; died 1733:03:31; buried at All Hallows Bread St, London)
found: Encyclopaedia Iranica, viewed online 21 March 2017(Fryer, John (b. ca. 1650; d. London, 31 March 1733), British travel-writer and doctor; John Fryer, F.R.S.; appointed by the British [i.e., English] East India Company as a surgeon for Surat, India, 11 September 1672; on 9 December 1672, sailed from Gravesend with the annual fleet of the East India Company, arriving in Bombay exactly a year later; eight years in the East, in India, traveling to Persia in 1677, then back to India; presumably in practice after his return to England in August 1682; he was elected fellow of the Royal Society in 1697)
