Nigel Fisher

Sir Nigel Thomas Loveridge Fisher MC (14 July 1913 – 9 October 1996) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.

Fisher was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was in the Welsh Guards of the British Army during World War II, serving as a major in north west Europe. He was awarded the Military Cross on the field in 1945. He became a partner in a London firm of surveyors.

Fisher contested Chislehurst in 1945. He was Member of Parliament for Hitchin from 1950 to 1955, and for Surbiton from 1955 to 1983 - preceding Richard Tracey. He was parliamentary private secretary to Gwilym Lloyd George from 1951 and a junior minister for the Colonies from 1962 to 1963, and for Commonwealth Relations and the Colonies from 1963 to 1964.

Fisher was married to Lady Gloria Vaughan, daughter of the 7th Earl of Lisburne and to erstwhile Ulster Unionist Party MP Patricia Ford.

He was son of Sir Thomas Fisher and the father of the former Labour Party MP Mark Fisher.

References

• Times Guide to the House of Commons, 1950, 1966 & 1979
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Philip Asterley Jones	Member of Parliament for Hitchin 1950 – 1955	Succeeded by Martin Maddan
New constituency	Member of Parliament for Surbiton 1955 – 1983	Succeeded by Richard Tracey
Political offices
Preceded by Hugh Fraser	Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies with Richard Hornby 1963 – 1964 1962 – 1964	Succeeded by Eirene White Lord Taylor

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Name	Fisher, Nigel
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Date of birth	14 July 1913
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Date of death	9 October 1996
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