W Ellerton Fry, was born in Somerset in 1846 and he emigrated to South Africa in 1872. He dug for diamonds at Kimberley; was a prospector, farmer and trader; became Secretary and Computer of the Royal Observatory, Cape Town; and Lieutenant-Intelligence Officer of the British South Africa Company's Expeditionary Force, documenting this journey in writing, photograph and diagram. In Murray, he includes a hand-drawn map of the route taken from Macloutsie River to Fort Salisbury between June - September, 1890. He died in Mowbray, Cape in June 1930.