Charles Douglas Fisher

The Hon Charles Douglas Fisher (8 October 1921 – 5 December 1978) was the English-born Australian headmaster of Scotch College, Adelaide (1962–1969), Church of England Grammar School, Brisbane (1970–1973) and Geelong Grammar School (1974–1978).

Early life Fisher was born in 1921 in Repton, Derbyshire, the son of the Rev Geoffrey Fisher (1887–1972) and his wife Rosamond Chevallier (née Forman) (1890–1986). At the time of his birth Geoffrey Fisher was the headmaster of Repton School; he would subsequently be appointed Archbishop of Canterbury.

The young Charles was educated at Marlborough College and was then commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery in 1941. travelling on the SS Oronsay. In retirement, Lord Fisher (as Geoffrey Fisher was by then) lived for a time with his son in Adelaide. Charles Fisher was then successively headmaster of Church of England Grammar School, Brisbane, (1970–1973) and Geelong Grammar School (1974–1978). In 1976, under Fisher, Geelong Grammar became fully co-educational by merging with The Hermitage and Clyde School.

Fisher Library at Geelong Grammar is named after him. There is a tablet to Fisher's memory at St Andrew's Church, Trent, Dorset, where both his parents are buried.

Personal life In 1952 Fisher married Anne Gilmour Hammond at Canterbury Cathedral.