FISHER

Andrew, Australian statesman. Born near Kilmarnock, 23th Aug., 1862, he worked for some time as a coalminer, and in 1885 wont to Queensland, wheve he was elected to the state legislature in 1898. In 1900 he became a member of the Commonwealth parliament. He was 455 FISHER minister of trade and customs in 1904, leader of the Labour party in 1907, and prime minister 1908-9 and 1910-13. He became High Commi ioner In England in 1915, resigning in 1921. He died 22nd Oct., 1928, FISHER, Rt. Hon. Herbert Albert Laurens, British historian and politician, born in London in 1865. Wducated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, Paris, and Géttingen, he became tutor and lecturer in history at Oxford. In 1912 he was appointed vice-chancellor of the University of Sheffield, retaining his post until 1916, when he became President of the Board of Education. He held this post until 1922, and in 1925 was appointed Warden of New College, Oxford. As Minister of Education Wisher was responsible for the Hducation Act of 1918. He was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1907, and delivered the Lowell lectures at Boston in 1909. His works include: The Media val Empire (1898), Napoleon (1913), and Studves in History and Politics.