John Arbuthnot Fisher
Admiral of the Fleet John Arbuthnot "Jacky" Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher of Kilverstone, GCB, OM, GCVO (25 January 1841 – 10 July 1920).
Lord Fisher was a British admiral known for his efforts in naval reform. His career spanned across 60 years with the Royal Navy, during which time he had a huge influence. He started in a navy of wooden sailing ships, armed with muzzle-loading cannon and ended in one of steel-hulled battle-cruisers, submarines and the first aircraft carriers.
1841 John Arbuthnot Fisher was born on 25 January 1841 on the Wavenden Estate at Ramboda in Ceylon. He was the eldest of eleven children, of whom only seven survived infancy, born to Sophie Fisher and Captain William Fisher, a British Army officer in the 78th Highlanders, who had been an aide-de-camp to the former governor of Ceylon, Sir Robert Wilmot-Horton, and was serving as a staff officer at Kandy.
He was said to be argumentative, energetic and reform-minded and is often considered to be the second most important figure in British naval history, after Lord Nelson.[1]