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H. A. L. Fisher

The Right Honourable
Herbert Fisher
OM PC FRS
Herbert Fisher.jpg
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

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)

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.


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