Joseph Fisher (Australian politician)

His father, Joshua Fisher (died 1841), opened a grocery store at the corner of Hindley and Morphett Streets.

[2]) In 1840 he started work as a clerk in the Tavistock Street office of the merchant Anthony Forster,[3] who, on the death of Fisher's father in 1841 became his guardian.

[6] This included £500 for the National Art Gallery and £1000 to the University of Adelaide, though these may have partly motivated by a need to avoid inheritance tax.

[4] Joseph Fisher was elected to the South Australian House of Assembly for the district of Sturt from April 1868 to March 1870.

He was at all times plain spoken and was not the man to make compromises of principle for the sake of securing any private advantage.

"[9] This may have referred to his opposition in 1880 to a parliamentary bill, which he labelled as "Un-Christian", to restrict freedoms of Chinese nationals.

The original house was built around 1853 by J. C. Verco and P. Santo, schoolmates from J. L. Young's Adelaide Educational Institution, both of whom were to become South Australian parliamentarians.