GREAT NAVAL MAN DIES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume X, Issue 177, 12 July 1920, Page 5

GREAT NAVAL MAN DIES.

ADMIRAL LORD FISHER

SUCCUMBS AFTER OPERATION

London, July 10. Admiral Lord Fisher, G.C.8., (i»C.V.O., first Baron of Kiiyerstone, died after an internal operation. A later message states that Admiral Fisher a long illness.. During the winter he went to the Riviera, and returned to London apparently improved. He resumed correspondence in the Press with great vigour. His fatal illness was brief, but its seriousness was evident from the outset. Admiral Fisher was conscious to the end. A memorial service will be held in the Abbey on Tuesday. The newspapers unanimously acclaim Admiral Fisher as a great national hero, his relatives receiving enormous numbers of messages of sympathy, including telegrams from the King and Queen and Mr. Lloyd George.

The , late Admiral was born on January’ 25th, 1841, and was of Captain William Fisher, of the 78th Highlanders. He was married, in 1866, to Frances, daughter of the Rev. T. Delves Broughton, and had one son and three daughters. He entered the Navy in 1854 ,and six years later had at tained the position of lieutenant. He latter took part in the capture of the Canton and Peiho forts, and also obtained the Beaufort Testimonial. By 1890 he had risen to the rank of RearAdmiraJ. He also served in several wars, notablv, Crimean (1855), China (1859-60), and Egyptian (1882). He also held several important positions, including Director of Naval Ordnance (1886-91), Admiral Superintendent at Portsmouth Dockyard (1891), controller of the Navy 7, Lord of the Admiralty (1892-97), Commander-in-Chief of the North American and West Indies Station (1897-99), delegate to Peace Conference at The Hague (1899), Cqm-mander-in-Chief Mediterranean -Station (1899-1902), Second Sea Lord of Admiralty (1902-3), Commander-in-Chiei Portsmouth (1903-4). First Sea Lord of Admiralty (1904-10 and 1914-15), and Chairman of the Royal Commission of the Inventions Board from 1915; received the Grand Cordon of the Legion of Honour (1906). and was a member of the Committee of Imperial Defence. Since the end of the war he gave his pen full rein and in addition to his “Memoirs” he conducted a slashing nress campawn. All his writings were strongly redolent of the sea and couched in phrases of fierce impatience with muddling and incompetence. His attacks on the Admiralty and his “scrap the lot” campaign, directed against the maintenance of the present capital ships, raised such widespread interest that have already become historic.