Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher

Standard Name: Fisher, Herbert Albert Laurens

Used Form: H. A. L. Fisher

Connections

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Friends, Associates	Dorothy Wellesley	This friendship led to others for DW , for on Yeats's later visits she invited people to meet him, including Lord David Cecil , Sir William Rothenstein , Rex Whistler , H. A. L. Fisher
Literary responses	Ray Strachey	The historian H. A. L. Fisher , reviewing for the Times Literary Supplement, devoted most of his space to the Stracheys' material rather than their treatment, but closed the piece with warm praise for...
politics	Dorothy Wellesley	Her fellow signatories included Violet Bonham Carter , Stafford Cripps , archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans , historian H. A. L. Fisher , scientist-philosopher Julian Huxley , sculptor Laura Knight , writers Edith Lyttelton and J. B. Priestley

Timeline

8 August 1918

Fisher 's Education Act passed: among other reforms it modified the system of grants, abolished fees for elementary schools, and empowered Local Education Authorities to raise the upper age limit of compulsory education to fifteen...

1935

The Council of Action for Peace and Reconstruction was founded; its leaders included economist H. A. L. Fisher , politician David Lloyd George , and activists Elizabeth Cadbury and Eleanor Rathbone .

Oakley, Ann. Man and Wife: Richard and Kay Titmuss: My Parents’ Early Years. HarperCollins, 1996.

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