Herbert William Fisher

Herbert William Fisher (1826-1903) born at Poulshot, Wiltshire, England, was a British historian, best known for his book "Considerations on the Origin of the American War" (1865).

Fisher was the son of William Fisher (1799-1874) and Elizabeth Cookson (c. 1803-1851). He married Mary Louisa Jackson (1841-1916) born Calcutta, East Indies, daughter of John Jackson, a physician in the Bengal Medical Service (whose other daughter, Julia, was the mother of Virginia Woolf). The couple had seven sons and several daughters. The sons included historian Herbert Fisher, and Admiral Sir William Wordsworth Fisher. Among the daughters was Florence, Lady Darwin. Another daughter, Adeline Maria, was the first wife of the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.

* Florence Henrietta Fisher (1864-1920), married Frederic William Maitland and secondly Sir Frank Darwin.
* Herbert Fisher (1865-1940), the historian
* John Francis Fisher (1866-1901), artillery officer killed in the Second Boer War
* Emmaline Fisher (1869-?)
* Adeline Fisher (1870-1951), married Ralph Vaughan Williams
* Edward Fisher (1872-?
* Henry Fisher (1874-?
* William Wordsworth Fisher (1875-1937), Knight Admiral
* Charles Fisher (1877-1916), killed during the First World War
* Cordelia Fisher (1880-?)

Fisher was tutor to the future King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, and served as PrivateSecretary to Henry Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne. In 1863 he became Private Secretary to the Prince of Wales, his former pupil, before being appointed to the position of Vice-Warden of the Stannaries (Cornwall) in 1870.

References

*"Mary Bennett: an Autobiography" (published by St Hilda's College, 2006, no ISBN)
* [http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0014%2FWWFI Papers of Admiral Fisher]