Background
Fisher, son of naval officer Sir Thomas Fisher, was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge.
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Nigel Fisher
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Education
Eton College.
Career
He was in the Welsh Guards of the British Army during World 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 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. Like Macleod, Fisher was on the liberal wing of the Tory party, opposing capital punishment and supporting homosexual law reform.
He was one of two Conservative MPs who refused to vote for the Commonwealth Immigrants Acting 1962. He was knighted in 1974.
Membership
39th United Kingdom Parliament. 40th United Kingdom Parliament. 41st United Kingdom Parliament.
42nd United Kingdom Parliament.
43rd United Kingdom Parliament. 44th United Kingdom Parliament.
45th United Kingdom Parliament. 46th United Kingdom Parliament.
47th United Kingdom Parliament.
48th United Kingdom Parliament]
He was Member of Parliament for Hitchin from 1950 to 1955, and for Surbiton from 1955 to 1983 - preceding Richard Tracey.
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Died
October 9, 1996 (aged 83) -
Nationality
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Political Party
Conservative Party