FISCHER, FREDERIC TRANT, brother of John Trant Fischer (qv); b. 19 Jan 1862; adm. (G) 4 Jun 1874; left May 1875.
FISCHER, JOHN TRANT; b. 28 Oct 1858; adm. (G) 16 Jun 1870; left Christmas 1874.
FISCHER, THOMAS TRANT, brother of John Trant Fischer (qv); b. 22 Jul 1860; adm. (G) 30 May 1872; left Aug 1875; 2nd Lieut., 99th Foot 14 Jan 1880; Lieut., 62nd Foot (1st batt. Wilts Regt. ) 6 Nov 1880; 99th Foot (2nd batt. Wilts Regt. ) 18 Dec 1880; resigned 4 Feb 1885.
FISH, JAMES, son of James Fish, Twickenham, Middlesex, and Inner Temple, and Ann, dau. of Thomas Eden, Dorewards Hall, Bocking, Essex; bapt. 27 Aug 1686; adm.; QS 1702; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 19 Oct 1705, aged 19, scholar 25 Apr 1707, matr. 1705/6.
FISHER, CECIL EDWARD, fifth son of Rev. William Fisher, Rector of Poulshot, Wilts., and Prebendary and Canon Residentiary of Salisbury, and his first wife Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. William Cookson DD, Canon of Windsor; b. 12 Aug 1838; adm. (G) 28 Jun 1851; QS (Capt. ) 1853; Capt. of the School 1856; spoke the Prologue to the Andria in 1856, when the scenes presented by William Carey (qv) were used for the last time; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1857, matr. 4 Jun 1857, Westminster Student to 1862; BA 1861; MA 1878; ordained deacon (Oxford) 1862, priest (Salisbury) 1863; Curate, Bremhill, Wilts., 1864; Rector of Stoke Rochford, Lincs., 1865-78; Prebendary of Lincoln from 1877; Vicar of Grantham, Lincs., 1878-83; Rector of Hagworthingham, Lincs., 1883-90; Vicar of St. Peter’s, Bournemouth, Hants., 1890-1904; m. 13 Nov 1862 his cousin Agnes, youngest dau. of John Mirehouse, Brownslade, Pembs., Common Serjeant of London; d. 13 Jan 1925.
Fisher, Charles Dennis, sixth son of Herbert William Fisher, of Hove, Sussex, sometime Vice-Warden of the Stannaries of Cornwall and Devon, by Mary Louisa, second daughter of John Jackson, M. D., of Brighton, Sussex; nephew of Cecil Edward Fisher (q.v.); b. Aug. 4, 1877; adm. as Q.S. Jan. 15, 1891; elected head to Ch. Ch. Oxon. 1896, matric. October 1896; Slade Exhibitioner 1897; 1st class Classics (Mods.) 1908; 2nd class Lit. Hum. 1900; B.A. 1900; M.A. 1903; lecturer and tutor at Ch. Ch. 1901; official student 1903; censor 1907-14; played cricket for Oxford against Cambridge 1900, and for Sussex 1901; a Governor of the School from 1908; also a member of the Governing Body of Christ's Hospital School; being disabled from joining the army, Fisher, on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, learned to drive a motor, and enlisted in the R.A.M.C. Ambulance Corps; served in Flanders for a year and was mentioned in despatches for his bravery under fire; obtained a commission as Lieut. in the R. N. V. R. Aug. 16, 1915, and was appointed to H. M. S. Invincible; edited the text of Tacitus in the Oxford series of Scriptores Classici, and was engaged in writing a commentary of the Histories of Tacitus; drowned on board H. M. S. Invincible when it went down in the battle of Horn Reef, off Jutland, May 31, 1916; The Chivalry of the Sea was dedicated to his memory by the Poet Laureate; unm.
Fisher, Claude Frederick Urquhart, son of Cecil Urquhart Fisher, of South Kensington, solicitor, by Lilian Mary, daughter of John George Megaw, of Rosetta, Belfast; grandson of Frederick Fisher (q.v.); b. June 4, 1891; adm. April 21, 1904 (A); left Dec. 1907; served with the 2/1st East Anglian Heavy Battery R.G.A. Aug. 1914 - Feb. 1919; M.B.E. June 3, 1919; associated with the Boy Scout movement for fifty years 1908-58; editorial secretary, International H. Q. 1920-32; various commissionerships including Asst. County Commissioner, Norfolk; Hon. Warden East London's Scout Settlement, Roland House, Stepney Green; asst. organizing secretary, World Jamboree, 1929; editorial staff, Eastern Daily Press, 1941-57; author of The Imperial Jamboree 1924 and World Jamboree 1929; d. 14 May 1985.
Fisher, Frederick Melton, son of S. Melton Fisher ARA and Alba, d. of Commendatore Stefani; b. 1 June 1893; adm. Sept. 1907 (G); left July 1912; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1912, BA 1919; Machine Gun Corps in WWI (Capt.); m. 7 Nov. 1921 Olga Edith Wahl; d. 5 May 1988.
FISHER, FREDERICK, fourth son of Robert Fisher (adm. 1783, qv); b. 3 Jul 1816; adm. 30 Jun 1830 (Stikeman's); KS 1831; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1835, adm. pens. 27 Jun 1835, scholar 1836, matr. Mich. 1835; migr. to Magdalene Coll. 26 Oct 1836; BA 1840; MA 1843; ordained deacon (New Zealand) 1847, priest (Salisbury) 1853; missionary with SPG at Howick, New Zealand 1847-9; Curate, Bremhill, Wilts., 1850; various other curacies to 1869; Vicar of Fleet, Hants., 1869-72; Rector of Downham, Cambs., from 1863; m. 1 Feb 1849 Mary, younger dau. of William Hayes, Middle Temple, barrister; d. 10 Jun 1884.
Fisher, George Walter Peter, brother of John Colborne Fisher (qv); b. 19 Aug. 1917; adm. Sept. 1930 (A); left Apr. 1935; St John's Coll. Camb., matric. 1936, BA 1939, MA 1962; RA 1939-45 (Maj.); p. c. RA Feb. 1945, Capt. July 1946, Maj. June 1951, Lieut.-Col. Dec. 1959; retd Apr. 1966; m. 30 May 1953 Susan Caroline, d. of Geoffrey Thomas of Alvediston, Wilts.; d. 26 July 1998.