[2] Fisher held at Magdalen College the post of divinity or philosophy reader (Wood).
According to Oldys's manuscript notes to Gerard Langbaine he became blind, whether from old age or an accident is not known.
Gideon Fisher, who went to Oxford in 1634 and succeeded to the estate at Carleton, was the son, not of Jasper, but of Jasper's elder brother Gideon[3] About 1631 (according to Anthony Wood) he became rector of Wilden, Bedfordshire, and in 1633 published his one considerable work, a play, entitled Fuimus Troes, the True Trojans, being a story of the Britaines valour at the Romanes first invasion.
Publickly presented by the gentlemen students of Magdalen College in Oxford, London, 1633, 4to.
The drama is written in blank verse, interspersed with lyrics; Druids, poets, and a harper are introduced, and it ends with a masque and chorus.