H. A. L. Fisher

The Right Honourable Herbert Fisher OM PC FRS


Member of Parliament for Sheffield Hallam
In office 23 December 1916 – 15 November 1922
Preceded by	Charles Stuart-Wortley
Succeeded by	Frederick Sykes
President of the Board of Education
In office 10 December 1916 – 19 October 1922
Monarch	George V
Prime Minister	David Lloyd George
Preceded by	The Marquess of Crewe
Succeeded by	E. F. L. Wood
Personal details
Born	21 March 1865 (1865-03-21) London
Died	18 April 1940 (1940-04-19) (aged 75)
Nationality	British
Political party	Liberal
Spouse(s)	Lettice Fisher (1875–1956)
Relatives	Herbert William Fisher (father) Florence Henrietta Fisher (sister) Arthur Alexander Fisher (brother) Emmeline Mary Fisher (sister) Adeline Maria Fisher (sister) Edmund Fisher (brother) Hervey George Stanhope Fisher (brother) William Wordsworth Fisher (brother) Charles Dennis Fisher (brother) Cordelia Fisher (sister) Edwin Fisher (brother) Mary Bennett (daughter)
Alma mater	New College, Oxford

Arthur Alexander Fisher (brother)

Emmeline Mary Fisher (sister)

Adeline Maria Fisher (sister)

Hervey George Stanhope Fisher (brother)

Cordelia Fisher (sister)

Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher OM PC FRS, (21 March 1865 – 18 April 1940) was an English historian, educator, and Liberal politician. He served as President of the Board of Education in David Lloyd George's 1916 to 1922 coalition government.

Fisher was born in London, the eldest son of Herbert William Fisher (1826–1903), author of Considerations on the Origin of the American War and his wife Mary Louisa Jackson (1841–1916). His sister Adeline Maria Fisher was the first wife of the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, another sister Florence Henrietta Fisher married both Frederic William Maitland and Francis Darwin. Fisher was a first cousin of Virginia Woolf and her sister Vanessa Bell (the children of his mother's sister Julia). He was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, where he graduated with a first class degree in 1888 and was awarded a fellowship.