Herbert William Fisher (30 July 1826 – 17 January 1903) was a British historian, best known for his book Considerations on the Origin of the American War (1865).
William Fisher[1] (1799–1874), rector of Poulshot from 1823 to his death, Canon of Salisbury Cathedral from 1834,[2] and his wife Elizabeth Cookson (c.1803–1851).
[1] Called to the bar at Inner Temple in 1855, Fisher served as private secretary to Henry Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne.
In 1862[5] he became private secretary to the Prince of Wales,[6] his former pupil, and became Keeper of the Privy Seal in 1865,[7] before being appointed to the position of Vice-Warden of the Stannaries, Cornwall in 1870.
[9] She was born in Calcutta, the second daughter of John Jackson, physician in the Bengal Medical Service and her younger sister, Julia, was the mother of Virginia Woolf.