Charles Fisher (headmaster)

Fisher began his teaching career at Harrow (1948–1955).^[1] His wife, whom he had married in 1952, was from Southern Rhodesia, and from 1955 to 1961 Fisher was senior master at Peterhouse at Marandellas.^[1] Returning briefly to England, he taught at Kent College, Canterbury and Sherborne School, before emigrating to Australia in 1962 to become headmaster of Scotch College, Adelaide,^[1][3] travelling on the SS Oronsay.^[4] In retirement, Lord Fisher (as Geoffrey Fisher was by then) lived for a time with his son in Adelaide.^[5] Charles Fisher was then successively headmaster of Church of England Grammar School, Brisbane, (1970–1973) and Geelong Grammar School (1974–1978).^[1][6] In 1976, under Fisher, Geelong Grammar became fully co-educational by merging with The Hermitage and Clyde School.^[7]

Fisher Library at Geelong Grammar is named after him.^[1] (It is not to be confused with Fisher Library, at the University of Sydney, which is named after a benefactor, Thomas Fisher.) The chapel at Scotch College, Adelaide, which Fisher had built, was renamed the Charles Fisher Memorial Chapel.^[8] There is a tablet to Fisher's memory at St Andrew's Church, Trent, Dorset, where both his parents are buried.^[9]

In 1952 Fisher married Anne Gilmour Hammond at Canterbury Cathedral.^[1] They had four sons and two daughters.^[1]

Fisher died in 1978, when, en route to Timbertop, his car hit a tree near Kanumbra.^[1] He was cremated.^[1] In 1983 his widow remarried, to the scientist Basil Hetzel.^[10]