Background
Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher was born in London on March 21, 1865.
Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher was born in London on March 21, 1865.
Fisher was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, and at Paris and Göttingen.
Fisher lectured in history at Oxford for some years. From 1912 to 1916 he was vice-chancellor of Sheffield University. In 1916 he entered Parliament as a Liberal and served as president of the Board of Education from 1916 to 1922. He was British delegate to the Assembly of the League of Nations from 1920 to 1922, and in 1925 he was elected warden of New College, Oxford. Fisher served as president of the British Academy from 1928 to 1932.
His historical works include The Medieval Empire (2 vols. , 1898), Studies in Napoleonic Statesmanship (1903), The History of England, 1485-1547 (1906), Bonapartism (1908), The Republican Tradition in Europe (1911), Political Unions (1911), Napoleon Bonaparte (1913), Studies in History and Politics (1920), Whig Historians (1928), and A History of Europe (3 vol. , 1935).
Herbert married to Lettice Fisher. They had a daughter: Mary Bennett.