Francis Fisher

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Fisher (1935)

Francis Marion Bates Fisher (born December 22, 1877 in Wellington , † 1960 ) was a New Zealand politician and tennis player.

Life

Fisher was the son of George Fisher , the Mayor of Wellington and a member of the New Zealand Parliament. In 1902 Fisher took part in the Second Boer War.

From 1905 to 1914, Fisher was a member of the New Zealand House of Representatives . He was originally a member of the Liberal Party , but then worked as a dissident in the short-lived New Liberal Party and, after its dissolution, ran as an independent candidate in the 1908 elections. In 1910 he finally joined the Reform Party . In the 1914 elections he lost his mandate to Robert Fletcher . Fisher last competed in the 1919 elections, but this time Arthur Henderson had to admit defeat. Because of his frequent changes in party membership, he was also called "Rainbow Fisher".

Tennis career

Fisher was an excellent tennis player. In 1906 he reached the final of the Australasian Championships , but lost there to Anthony Wilding . He won the New Zealand championships several times in doubles and mixed. In 1920 he advanced to the semi-finals at the Wimbledon Championships in doubles alongside Josiah Ritchie . The following year he reached the double finals of the World Indoor Championships in London with Alfred Beamish . In 1924 he completed two games for the New Zealand Davis Cup team as part of the encounter against Czechoslovakia . However, he lost both his singles and doubles on the side of John Peacock in five sets.

literature

  • Paul Maxim: Printers, politicians and piston rings: a biography of the Fisher family. Self-published, Wellington 2007, ISBN 978-0-473-12165-5 .

Web links

Commons : Francis Fisher  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ B. Collins: History of Tennis. 2nd Edition. New Chapter Press, New York 2010, ISBN 978-0-942257-70-0 , p. 787.
  2. ^ New Zealand Championships . In: Alexander Hare McLintock (Ed.): An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand . Wellington 1966 ( online [accessed December 13, 2015]).
personal data
SURNAME Fisher, Francis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fisher, Francis Marion Bates (full name); Fisher, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand politician and tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Wellington
DATE OF DEATH 1960