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Fisher was superintendent of the dockyard at Portsmouth for a few months in 1891–1892 after which he became Third Sea Lord, the naval officer with overall responsibility for provision of ships and equipment.
Fisher was brought to the admirality to reduce the naval budgets, and to reform the navy for a modern war.
Fisher's policy with regards to Dreadnoughts has often been misunderstood; it was not a class of ship which he favoured, as his time as admiral of the Mediterranean fleet had taught him the vulnerability of slow big gun ships to mines, torpedoes and submarines.
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 John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Arbuthnot Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (January 25 1841 – July 10 1920), commonly known as "Jackie" Fisher, was a British admiral known for his efforts at naval reform.
Fisher was born in Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) to an English family, the eldest of eleven children.
Fisher had opposed to the campaign from the outset, preferring an amphibious attack on the German Baltic Sea coastline, even having shallow draft battlecruisers such as Furious and Courageous constructed for it.
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Fisher’s early education was probably received in the school attached to the collegiate church in his native town.
Fisher took the degree of B.A. in 1487, M.A. in 1491 and in the same year he was elected a fellow of his college, and was made Vicar of Northallerton, Yorkshire.
John Fisher was a figure universally esteemed throughout Europe and notwithstanding the subsequent efforts of the English government, was to remain so.
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 Jackie Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Admiral of the Fleet John Arbuthnot "Jackie" Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, GCB, OM, GCVO (25 January 1841 10 July 1920) was a British admiral known for his efforts at naval reform.
Memories, by the Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Fisher.
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John's and Christ's Colleges, and also the two "Lady Margaret" professorships of divinity at Oxford and Cambridge respectively, Fisher himself being the first occupant of the Cambridge chair.
A priest, used to secrecy in matters of conscience, Fisher was taken in and said that he was convinced "that the King was not, nor could be, by the Law of God, Supreme Head in earth of the Church of England".
Saint John Fisher College in Rochester, Monroe County, New York and St John Fisher College at the University of Tasmania in Hobart and St. John Fisher Catholic High schools in Harrogate, Wigan, Dewsbury and Stoke-on-Trent are named after him, as is Fisher Athletic F.C. of Rotherhithe.
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John Arbuthnot Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (1841-1920), Admiral.
Fisher was an efficient administrator whose reforming influence was felt thoughout the navy.
Fisher returned to office on the outbreak of war in 1914.
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Fisher Ames (9 April 1758 - 4 July 1808) was a Representative of the United States Congress from Massachusetts.
The fisher (''Martes pennanti'') is a North American marten.
Fisher Automobile Company, first automobile dealership in the United States.
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LORD JOHN ARBUTNOTH FISHER, 1ST BARON FISHER OF KILVERSTONE
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