Author: Fisher, John
Biography:
FISHER, John (1774-1846: findmypast.com)
He was born in Bodmin, Cornwall, and baptised on 7 June 1774, the son of John Fisher and Catherine Hosken, who had married there on 3 Feb. 1773. He graduated from Pembroke College, Oxford (matric. 1793, BA 1797, MA 1824) and entered the Church, settling after some briefer appointments at Wavendon, Bucks., where he served as Rector from 1805 until he retired in 1827, after which he continued living at Church End in Wavendon until his death. On 19 May 1808 he married Caroline Lucas and went on to have seven children with her. In 1840 he published a poem, The Honeymoon, "written on the occasion" over thirty years earlier. (His wife's name does not appear in the 1841 Census and she had presumably died earlier, but no record of death has been found.) His professional life was not without incident: in 1830, he managed to defuse a dangerous situation when a luddite crowd attacked his house demanding a reduction of tithes, a raise in labourers' pay, and the restoration of the custom of distributing buns and beer in the churchyard on St. George's Day--a custom that Fisher pointed out had been suspended before he became Rector. He died on 23 Dec. 1846 and was buried at Wavendon on 27 Dec. (findmypast.com 23 Aug. 2021; ancestry.com 23 Aug. 2021; CCEd 22 Aug 2021; Alumni Oxonienses)