Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher
(1865-1940), Historian, politician and warden of New College, OxfordSitter in 23 portraits
Historian and politician. Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher came from a noted intellectually and artistically gifted family; one of his aunts was Julia Margaret Cameron and his cousins included Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell. He excelled at Oxford alongside fellow student and lifelong friend Gilbert Murray. In 1916 Fisher was elected MP for Sheffield Hallam and joined the government of David Lloyd George as President of the Board of Education. In this post he was instrumental in introducing the 1918 Education Act, which made school attendance compulsory for children up to the age of fourteen. Equally influential was his A History of Europe (1935) written after he had returned to Oxford to be Warden of New College in 1926.
by William Rothenstein
sanguine
NPG 6690
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, 1919
NPG x167552
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 29 February 1924
NPG x74706
Harold Trevor Baker; Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, late 1924
NPG Ax141817
by Walter Benington, for Elliott & Fry
chlorobromide print, 1930s
NPG x90711
by Olive Edis
matte bromide print on photographer's card mount, circa 1930
NPG x5191
by Olive Edis
matte bromide print on photographer's card mount, circa 1930
NPG x5192
by Olive Edis
sepia-toned bromide print on photographer's card mount, circa 1930
NPG x5193
by Olive Edis
bromide print on photographer's card mount, circa 1930
NPG x5194
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, 1931
NPG x21925
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, 1931
NPG x167553
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 1 November 1918
NPG x158109
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 1 November 1918
NPG x158110
by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 1 November 1918
NPG x158111
by Walter Benington, for Elliott & Fry
half-plate glass copy negative, published 1927
NPG x82134
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