The geologist and priest Rev. Osmond Fisher was born in Dorset in 1817. He attended King's College, London and Jesus College in 1836, where he read for a degree in mathematics. During his time at Cambridge he struck up a friendship with the geologist Adam Sedgwick, who in 1852, proposed Fisher as a Fellow of the Geological Society. In 1881 he published 'The Physics of the Earth's Crust' in which he speculated that the Earth's crust may sit on top a liquid layer. This theory was ridiculed at the time, only slowly being accepted in the mid-twentieth century.
Killed at Beaumont-Hamel. Brother to Ruth Fraser.
Born on 13 October 1870 in London. Second son of Edwin Frederick, of Frognal Priory, N.W. London.
Attended Mill Hill School.
Was admitted to Jesus College aged 18 in October 1889.
B.A. and LL.B. 1892; M.A. 1896.
Rugby Blue, 1889.
Called to the Bar, Middle Temple, 8 May 1895.
Served in the First World War as a Major in the Worcestershire Regiment; Lieutenant.-Colonel, R. Welsh Fusiliers; Chevalier of Legion of Honour.
K.B.E., 1920, for recruiting services.
Member of Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors.
Examiner, Lord Bryce's Commission on Belgian Atrocities.
Of Possingworth, Cross-in-hand, Sussex, in 1926.
Lived latterly at Gordon Dene, Princes Way, London, S.W.
Died 28 September 1940, at Culls, near Stroud, Gloucs.