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Sep 29, 2024 · John Arbuthnot Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, served in the Royal Navy for over sixty years, modernizing the fleet with steel-hulled battlecruisers, submarines, and aircraft carriers. Reform of the Navy Fisher's reforms included removing 150 outdated ships from active service and constructing modern replacements, preparing the fleet for World War I.
Sep 20, 2024 · John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, Admiral of the Fleet, ashes buried at Kilverstone, Norfolk. John French, 1st Earl of Ypres, Field Marshal, ashes buried at Ripple, Kent. Sir Edward German, composer, ashes buried at Whitchurch, Shropshire.
Oct 5, 2024 · ONLINE: Lord Fisher, the Baltic and the battle for British Grand Strategy 1914-15. The presentation will be live and online. Professor Andrew Lambert will talk about Admiral Sir Jacky Fisher's Baltic plans, which were far more complex, and sophisticated than the parody that Churchill published.
6 days ago · St. John Fisher (1469–1535) was ordained a priest when he was about 22 and was appointed bishop of Rochester in 1504. He lived an intentionally simple lifestyle and was an intellectual. He studied theology at Cambridge, where he became chancellor.
Sep 30, 2024 · Taken before commissioners John Wood and John Stephens gents, in a case of scandalous words provocative of a duel between 9 and 11am on 11 January 1638 at the Swan Inn, in the city of Gloucester.
2 days ago · First came the prior and several unfortunate Charter House monks, and then the good old Bishop of Rochester, John Fisher. The parboiled head of the good old man who would not bow the knee to Rimmon was kept, that Queen Anne Boleyn might enjoy the grateful sight.
2 days ago · Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, KG, OM, PC, FRS, FBA, DL (/ ˈ b æ l f ər,-f ɔːr /, [1] 25 July 1848 – 19 March 1930) was a British statesman and Conservative Party politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905.
