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John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher. Admiral of the Fleet John Arbuthnot Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, [2] GCB, OM, GCVO (25 January 1841 – 10 July 1920), commonly known as Jacky or Jackie Fisher, was a British Admiral of the Fleet. With more than sixty years in the Royal Navy, his efforts to reform the service helped to usher in an era of ...
John Arbuthnot Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (born Jan. 25, 1841, Ceylon [now Sri Lanka]—died July 10, 1920, London) was a British admiral and first sea lord whose reforms between 1904 and 1910 ensured the dominance of the Royal Navy during World War I. Fisher entered the navy at age 13. He was a midshipman in the Crimean War and in China (1859 ...
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Jun 27, 2022 · John Arbuthnot Fisher was born on 25 January, 1841, on the Wavenden Estate at Rambodde, Ceylon, to Captain William Fisher (1811–1866) and Sophia Lambe (1820–1895). William Fisher was an officer of the 78th Regiment of Foot (Highlanders) serving as Aide-de-Camp to the Governor of Ceylon. In 1841 he decided to leave the army, and became a ...
May 21, 2018 · Fisher, Sir John, 1st Baron Fisher (1841–1920). Admiral. ‘Jackie’ Fisher was the main architect of the fleet with which Britain went to war in 1914. Between 1905 and 1910, when he served as 1st sea lord, he introduced two new classes of warship, the all-big-gun, turbine-propelled Dreadnought class of battleship and the more lightly armoured ‘Invincible’ class of battle-cruiser.
Admiral of the Fleet John Arbuthnot Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher,, commonly known as Jacky or Jackie Fisher, was a British Admiral of the Fleet. With more than sixty years in the Royal Navy, his efforts to reform the service helped to usher in an era of modernisation which saw the supersession of wooden sailing ships armed with muzzle-loading cannon by steel-hulled battlecruisers, submarines and ...
Fisher, John Arbuthnot. British Admiral and naval administrator. Born 25 January 1841 in Ceylon, British Empire. Died 10 July 1920 in London, England. John Fisher led the Royal Navy in the run-up to and in the early years of the First World War. A controversial figure in his lifetime and afterwards, his intentions and legacy are hotly disputed ...
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Admiral of the Fleet John Arbuthnot "Jacky" Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher of Kilverstone (1841-1920) JOHN ARBUTHNOT FISHER, 1st Baron Fisher of Kilverstone, was born January 25, 1841, at Rambodde, in Ceylon, where his father, Captain William Fisher, of the 78th Highlanders, on retiring from the army, had taken up the life of a coffee planter.
