Lorimer Fison

Lorimer Fison (9 November 1832 – 29 December 1907) was an Australian anthropologist, Methodist minister and journalist.

Early life Fison was born at Barningham, Suffolk, England, the son of Thomas Fison, a prosperous landowner, and his wife Charlotte, a daughter of the Rev. John Reynolds, who was a translator of seventeenth-century religious writers. Fison was educated at a school at Sheffield, then at the University of Cambridge where he studied with a tutor before becoming a student of Caius College in June 1855. After a "boyish escapade" at college he left for Australia. His sister was Anna Fison, translator and educator.

Late life Fison died on 29 December 1907 at Essendon, Melbourne.