Admiral Sir Frederic William Fisher KCVO (5 October 1851 – 23 December 1943) was a Royal Navy officer who became President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich.
In early February 1900 it was announced that Fisher would be appointed in command of the battleship HMS Illustrious,[1] but the appointment was cancelled,[2] and he remained in charge of Collingwood for another couple of months.
[3] On 18 April 1901, he commissioned at Chatham the pre-dreadnought battleship HMS Revenge, which was to serve both as coast guard ship at Portland and flagship of Rear-Admiral Sir Gerard Noel, Admiral Superintendent of Naval Reserves.
[4] He received command of the battleship HMS Canopus in 1904.
[5] He went on to be Admiral Superintendent of Malta Dockyard in 1907 and President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich in 1911 before retiring in 1914.