[4] A year later, Fisher was elected a member of the Birmingham City Council, in which she sat until 1974.

[3] Fisher was National President of the Co-operative Party Guild in 1961 and was appointed a Justice of the Peace.

[4] She contested Birmingham Ladywood in 1969 at a by-election in which Wallace Lawler of the Liberals gained the seat from Labour.

[7] In the House of Lords, Fisher became Crown Representative of the General Medical Council in September 1974 and later chaired the Esperanto Group.

[2] In December 1991, at the age of 72, Lady Fisher slept rough in a nest of cardboard boxes at Birmingham's St Philip's Cathedral to draw attention to the plight of the city's homeless.