H. A. L. Fisher

Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher

Background and education

Fisher was born in London,

In 1918 he became MP for the Combined English Universities.^[11]

Fisher

In 1943, Operation Mincemeat, a British Intelligence operation to deceive enemy forces, undertook the invention of a false Royal Marines officer, whose body was to be dropped at sea in the hope the false intelligence it carried would be believed. As the fictitious Major Martin was to be a man of some means, he required quality underwear, but with rationing this was difficult to obtain, and the intelligence officers were unwilling to donate their own. Fisher's was obtained, and the corpse used in the deception, dressed in Fisher's quality woollen underpants, succeeded in misleading German Intelligence.^[17][18]

Family

Fisher married the economist and historian

A portrait drawing of Fisher by Catharine Dodgson and an oil portrait by William Nicholson (artist) hang at New College, Oxford. The college also possess a conversation piece by Berthe Noufflard of Fisher, Lettice Ilbert, and Mary Bennett.

See also

• Frederic William Maitland
• Henry James Sumner Maine
• Paul Vinogradoff
• Liberalism in the United Kingdom

Works

• The Medieval Empire, Vol. 2, Macmillan & Co., 1898.
• Studies in Napoleonic Statesmanship: Germany, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1903.
• The History of England, from the Accession of Henry VII to the Death of Henry VIII, 1485–1547, Longmans, Green & Co., 1906.
• Bonapartism; Six Lectures Delivered in the University of London, Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1908.
• The Republican Tradition in Europe, Methuen & Co., 1911.
• Napoleon. H. Holt and Company. 1913. [1st Pub. 1912].
• Committee on Alleged German Outrages (James Bryce; F. Pollock; Edward Clarke; Kenelm Edward Digby; Alfred Hopkinson ; H. A. L. Fisher; Harold Cox) (1915). Report of the Committee on Alleged German Outrages Appointed by His Britannic Majesty's Government and Presided over by The Right Hon. Viscount Bryce, O.M., &c. New York: Macmillan Company. Retrieved 23 February 2024 – via Internet Archive.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• Studies in History and Politics, Oxford : The Clarendon Press, 1920.
• The Common Weal, Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1924.
• James Bryce, 2 vols. London: Macmillan, 1927.
• Our New Religion, Ernest Benn, 1929. An examination of Christian Science.^[20]
• A History of Europe. Vol. 1. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1935 – via Internet Archive. volume 2;

Articles

• "Fustel de Coulanges", The English Historical Review, Vol. V, 1890.
• "The Codes" in The Cambridge Modern History, vol. ix, Cambridge: University Press, 1906.
• "The Political Writings of Rousseau", The Edinburgh Review, Vol. CCXXIV, N°. 457, July 1916.
• "The Whig Historians", in Proceedings of the British Academy, n. 14, 1928.
• "A Universal Historian" in The Nineteenth Century and After, vol. 116, no. 694, December, London: Constable, 1934.

Pamphlets

• The Value of Small States, Oxford Pamphlets, N°. 17, Oxford University Press, 1914.
• The British Share in the War, T. Nelson & Sons, 1915.
• Political Prophecies. An Address to the Edinburg Philosophical Society Delivered Nov. 5, 1918, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1919.
• The Place of the University in National Life, Oxford University Press, 1919.
• Paul Valéry, Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1927.
• What to Read on Citizenship, Leeds, Jowett & Sowry Ltd., 1928.

References

Further reading

• Judge, Harry. "H. A. L. Fisher: Scholar and Minister," Oxford Review of Education, Vol. 32(1), The university and Public Education: The Contribution of Oxford, Feb. 2006.

External links

Wikiquote has quotations related to H. A. L. Fisher.

• Works by H. A. L. Fisher at Project Gutenberg
• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Herbert Fisher

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Charles Stuart-Wortley	Member of Parliament for Sheffield Hallam 1916–1918	Succeeded by Douglas Vickers
New constituency	Member of Parliament for Combined English Universities 1918–1926 With: Sir Martin Conway	Succeeded by Sir Martin Conway Sir Alfred Hopkinson
Political offices
Preceded by The Marquess of Crewe	President of the Board of Education 1916–1922	Succeeded by Hon. E. F. L. Wood
Academic offices
Preceded by Charles Eliot	Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield 1913–1917	Succeeded by William Ripper