Warren Fisher
British civil servant
About Warren Fisher
Lived 1879 – 1948 (aged 68–69).
Sir Norman Fenwick Warren Fisher (22 September 1879 – 25 September 1948) was a British civil servant.
Fisher was born in Croydon, London, the only son of Henry Warren Fisher. He was educated at the Dragon School (Oxford), Winchester College and Hertford College, Oxford. He matriculated in 1898, taking a first Classical Moderations in 1900 and a graduating with a second in Greats in 1902.
Fisher gave the Civil Service a cohesion it previously lacked and did more to reform it than any man in the preceding fifty years. He increased the importance of the Treasury. He advanced the interests of women in the civil service and at one point described himself as a feminist.
His elder son Norman Fisher (d. 1982) made his career in the Royal Navy, surviving two submarine disasters before the war and attaining the rank of captain; his second son Robin died in 1988.
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British civil servant (1879–1948)
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Warren Fisher was born in 1879.
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Warren Fisher died in 1948.
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