Scope and Contents Includes: A handwritten letter sent by Ethel M. Crugh at County Cork [?] to Norman Fisher [Warren Fisher’s son] dated following his father’s death in 1948. Warren Fisher’s obituary published in The Times on 27 September 1948. Letters between Lord Chatfield and Warren Fisher, Lord Astor [Waldorf Astor] in March 1945 concerning criticisms of the Treasury’s approach to rearmament and Warren Fisher’s resignation from the Defence Requirements Committee. Also...

Scope and Contents Includes: A typescript letter sent by the Chairman of Martins Bank Limited to Commander N.W.Fisher [Norman Warren, Warren Fisher’s son] dated 12 October 1948, with a copy of a resolution passed by the General Board following Warren Fisher’s death. A typescript document sharing Warren Fisher’s entry for the Dictionary of National Biography. A fragment of an undated letter signed by Warren Fisher in which he discusses Prussia and the battle ‘not between...

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Letters addressed to Norman Fisher, including from H.P.Hamilton, Ethel M. Crugh [?] at County Bank, R.W.Sturgeon [Royal Insurance Company Limited and the Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Company Limited], and Theodore Goddard (Solicitor) following Fisher’s death in 1948.

Also includes obituaries by Sir Noel Curtis-Bennett (for the press) and W.J.Brown for the Civil Service Magazine.

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Letters sent by Clement Attlee and County Bank [?] to Norman Fisher [Warren Fisher’s son] following Warren Fisher’s death.

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Newspaper cuttings discussing the Treasury and Warren Fisher’s role as head of the Treasury and Civil Service, his attendance at a conference held in Washington on war debt in March [1930?], correspondence exchanged between Warren Fisher and Herbert Morrison in 1942, and obituaries following Fisher’s death in 1948.

Scope and Contents Newspaper cuttings concerning Warren Fisher’s dismissal as Special Commissioner for the London Civil Defence Region (April 1942). Letters sent by Norman Fisher [Warren Fisher’s son] and Viscount Elibank to The Daily Telegraph concerning Warren Fisher’s involvement in the run up to the Second World War. Also includes a letter sent by Warren Fisher to the Editor of The Times responding to criticisms made by Major Randolph Churchill about Lord Chatfield whom he described as the ‘Man of...

Scope and Contents Newspaper cuttings reporting on:Warren Fisher’s address to the Brighton Rotary Club.Comments made by the President of the Board of Trade, Oliver Stanley, against Warren Fisher in relation to the level of British exports, dated 8 December 1939.Warren Fisher’s comments regarding the snobbish nature of Oxbridge education when talking to members of the Liverpool Economic and Statistical Society.Herbert Morrison’s dismissal of Warren Fisher as...

Scope and Contents Including Warren Fisher’s recommendations for Civil Servants (1947); comments made by H.Montgomery Hyde (1972) and rebuttals by his sons Robin and Norman Fisher; a 1953 fraud court case relating to Mary ‘Maysie’ Fisher and Arthur and Rose Lawless; the publication of Sir Walford Selby’s book ‘Diplomatic Twilight’ and comments on Warren Fisher (1953); Warren Fisher’s retirement and relationship with Reginald McKenna; appointment as Head of Civil Service (1919); work as Regional Commissioner of...

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Topics include Warren Fisher’s proposals to improve the Civil Service, event at Civil Service Sports Ground at Chiswick, hosting the Grand National at Aintree, use of fire appliances during war, criticisms made by Sir Walford Selby and defence of Warren Fisher by Lord Vansittart and Lady Fisher, review of ‘Vansittart: Study of a Diplomat’ by Norman Rose. Also includes The House of Lords Official Report for 8 July 1953, Vol. 183 and No.86.

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A copy of a document sent [by Warren Fisher] to the Prime Minister [Neville Chamberlain] on 1 October 1938 with annotations. Fisher calls for Britain to offer financial support to those inhabitants in Sudetenland [Czechoslovakia] who have lost their property.

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Newspaper cuttings reporting on the marriage of his son’s wedding [Lieut. Norman Warren Fisher, R.N. to Miss Olive Bayley] in 1932, the birth of Warren Fisher’s granddaughter [Rosemary, 1935], and Fisher’s role as Best Man at the wedding of Ray Atherton, Counsellor of the American Embassy in London [1928].

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Subjects include: his affection for her; the death of Michael McKenna; her health, the health of her mother, Agnes, Lady Jekyll, and Fisher's health; seeking custody of his son from his estranged wife, Maysie, Lady Fisher; [?] the chances of war with Germany.

Also includes a photograph of Fisher from 1913.

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A photograph of Warren Fisher taken in April 1934, leaving his son’s wedding.

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Photographs of:

Warren Fisher with his son [Norman] dressed in the uniform of the Royal Navy.

Maysie Fisher dressed in a nurse’s uniform, when she worked for a Voluntary Aid Detachment for a brief period between October 1915 to January 1916.

Warren Fisher [undated]

Scope and Contents Includes cuttings reporting on Warren Fisher’s return to London as North-West Regional Commissioner, letters sent by Sir Robert Vansittart and Philip Farrer [on 13 May 1953] to the editor of The Daily Telegraph, in response to Lord Elibank’s criticisms of Fisher’s resignation as Special Commissioner for the London Civil Defence Region. Also includes an extract from Parliamentary Debates, 15 July 1937 concerning the status of the Permanent Secretary as the Head of the Civil...

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Includes a photograph of Warren Fisher, dated 17 January 1939, labelled ‘retirement’ and correspondence with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in January 1939.

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A blue booklet titled ‘Sir Warren Fisher and the Public Service’ by Sir H.P.Hamilton, reprinted from the Spring 1951 issue of ‘Public Administration’. Enclosed is a booklet titled ‘Memorandum on the subject of the Acceptance of Business Appointments by Officers of the Crown Services’, dated July 1937.

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PhD thesis by Eunan O'Halpin in the course of which O'Halpin consulted and interviewed people who had known Fisher including his son, colleagues and associates. Includes letters from and interviews with contemporaries of Fisher.

Scope and Contents Includes: A note where Warren Fisher specifies how the following papers were found in the drawer of his Treasury desk, before handing over to Horace Wilson on 20 May 1939. Documents prepared for, and correspondence with Neville Chamberlain [Prime Minister], John Simon [Chancellor of the Exchequer] and Horace Wilson [civil servant] concerning rearmament, comparative British and German naval and air strength, Czechoslovakia, recommendations regarding taxation,...

Scope and Contents Includes: A short note by Warren Fisher explaining the provenance of these documents. This file includes duplicate items included in WFSH 3/8/1, but with handwritten annotations. Documents prepared for, and correspondence with Neville Chamberlain [Prime Minister], John Simon [Chancellor of the Exchequer] and Horace Wilson [civil servant] concerning rearmament, comparative British and German naval and air strength, Czechoslovakia, recommendations regarding taxation,...

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Duplicate papers found in the drawer of Warren Fisher’s Treasury desk, before handing over to Horace Wilson on 20 May 1939.

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A series of documents, correspondence, cuttings, and photographs relating to Warren Fisher covering the period between 1926 and 1978.

Scope and Contents A draft book manuscript written by Warren Fisher, with some annotations in pen and pencil. This manuscript is undated, but in Chapter 17, Fisher refers to ‘present war’, which was most likely the Second World War. Fisher offers a historical account of political and social change in Britain and Ireland from the nineteenth through to the twentieth century and includes discussions of his professional endeavours. The draft manuscript is split into two parts. The first part includes...