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Fisher, Adela
Person · 21 January 1827 - 23 February 1866
Fisher, Emma
2nd December 1818 - 6th September 1841
Fisher, Francis
Person · 11th April 1822 - 25th September 1858
Fisher, Mary
Person · c.1761 - 9th May 1841
Fisher, Osmond
GB 2703 000457 · Person · 17th November 1817 - 12th July 1914

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.

Fisher, Tom
Person · d. 1st July 1916

Killed at Beaumont-Hamel. Brother to Ruth Fraser.

Fisher, William
Person · 22nd October 1820 - 18th December 1845