Herbert Fisher

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Herbert Fisher

Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher OM (born March 21, 1865 in London ; † April 18, 1940 there ; also HAL Fisher ) was a British historian, teacher and liberal politician.

Fisher was 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 was married to Frederic William Maitland and Francis Darwin .

Fisher was a cousin of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell . He was educated at Winchester and New College (Oxford) . In 1899 he married the historian Lettice Ilbert (1875–1956).

In 1912 Fisher was Vice Chancellor of the University of Sheffield and in 1914 co-author of the propaganda Bryce Report . In 1916 he was elected to the House of Commons as a member of the Liberal Party for Sheffield Hallam, the southwest part of the city . He became a member of the Privy Council in 1916 and Prime Minister David Lloyd George appointed him Minister of Education (President of the Board of Education). The Board drafted the Education Act in 1918 , which made compulsory schooling a law up to the age of 14.

In 1918 Fisher became a Member of Parliament for the Combined English Universities , a special university constituency, and remained so until 1926 when he retired from politics to become head of New College , Oxford.

Fisher received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1927 for a biography of James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce , and in 1937 the Order of Merit . Since 1907 he was a member ( fellow ) of the British Academy . In 1931 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1937 he was accepted as an honorary foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters .

Fisher was associated with propaganda throughout his life. When the war began, he wrote a foreword for Richard Crossman . His daughter Mary Bennett (1913–2005) worked for the Ministry of Information during World War II and later joined the Colonial Office .

Fonts

  • Frederick William Maitland. Downing Professor of the Laws of England. Cambridge: at the University Press, 1910
  • The Republican Tradition in Europe . Methuen & co. London 1911
  • The value of small states . London, Harrison and Sons, 1915.
  • The British Share in The War . London. Thomas Nelson and Sons. 1915
  • British Universities and the War. A Record & Its Meaning . London: Field & Queen (H. Cox), 1917.
  • The common weal . The Clarendon press. Oxford. 1924
  • Foreword for: Gooch, George P. (eabody, 1873-1968): Germany . Scribner 1925
  • The Whig Historians . Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol 14. Oxford University Press 1928.
  • James Bryce, Viscount Bryce of Dechmont, OM , 2 volumes, New York, MacMillan Co., 1927.
  • with Fisher, Lettice: The Facts Behind the Crisis . Oxford / London: Oxford University Press / Humphrey Milford, 1931
  • Our new religion . Watts. London. 1933.
  • Life and Work in England: A Sketch of Our Social and Economic History . London. Edward Arnold. 1935
  • The history of Europe . Stuttgart, Ernst Klett Verlag, 1936.
  • Essays in Honor of Gilbert Murray . London: George Allen & Unwin, 1936.
  • Napoleon . New York. Oxford University Press. no year
  • Pages from the past . Oxford Clarendon Press, 1939.
  • Co-author: The Background and Issues of War. The Clarendon Press Oxford. 1940
  • An Unfinished Autobiography . London. Oxford University Press. 1941
  • Paris at High Noon . Atlantic Monthly Magazine. 1941
  • Preface for: RHS Crossman . Government and the Governed. A History of Political Ideas and Practice . London: Christophers, 1942

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed May 28, 2020 .
  2. ^ Honorary Members: Herbert AL Fisher. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed March 10, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Fisher, Herbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fisher, HAL
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, Member of the House of Commons and historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1940
Place of death London