Captain Fryer Bowes Todd

Occupation: Officer in the East India Company Army.
Fryer joined the service in 1819 and served in the 11th Native Infantry. He was made Second Lieutenant on 5 April 1820, and promoted to Lieutenant on 11 July 1823 (Alphabetical list of the officers of the Bengal army 1760-1837 p260). On 3 January 1832 he was permitted to proceed to Europe on furlough, "for private affairs" and appointed to the charge of the invalids of the H.C. Service under orders of embarkation for Europe on the Thomas Grenville. (Calcutta magazine for 1831 p28). Fryer and Charlotte returned to Bengal in 1833 aboard the D'Auvergne (Asiatic Journal Sept 1833 p62). Fryer, then a Brevet Captain, was promoted to captain on 1 December 1836 (Asiatic Journal vol 22 p265), then invalided on 20 January 1841 (Asiatic Journal vol 34 p318). The Asiatic Journal vol 35 p238 notes that:
Capt. F.B. Todd, invalid estab., permitted to reside at Saugor, and to draw his pay and allowances from Benares pay office, until 1st Nov. next, when he will proceed and join invalid batt. at Chunar.
In 1846, Fryer is described as being "of Mirzapore, a captain in the invalid establishment" when he is granted probate of the estate of his brother Elliot (Allen's Indian Mail 24 July 1846 p468).

Death: 7 October 1847, at Mirzapur, Bengal, England
United Service Magazine vol 56 (1848) p160
DEATHS.
Oct 7th, Mlrzapoor, Bengal, Capt. F.B. Todd, Bengal Army, aged 47