[5] He was elected Tutor in Christ Church in 1903[2] and served as Senior Censor from 1910 to 1914,[6] described as one of Oxford's "most prominent members of its educational staff".
[5] Fond of exercise, he liked hiking through the Austrian Alps and also undertook long walking tours through Italy with the aim of better appreciating the Roman historian Cornelius Tacitus.
[5] At the start of World War I in 1914 he learnt to drive, joined the Royal Army Medical Corps Motor Ambulance[5] and served on the Western Front as orderly and interpreter,[6] distinguishing himself for bravery under fire.
[6] He was lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, and was serving on HMS Invincible when she was sunk in the Battle of Jutland on 31 May 1916[10] with the loss of 1026 lives.
If it had not been for the existing necessity of holy orders, it is in Charles Fisher that Christ Church would naturally have expected to find its next Dean.