John Fisher, The Man

1841 born in Ceylon

1847 sent to school in London, aged 6

1854 joins the British Navy, aged 13

1866 marries Frances Katharine Josepha Broughton

1868 birth of daughter, Beatrix

1867 birth of son, Cecil Vavasseur, 2nd Baron Fisher

1873 birth of daughter, Dorothy

1876 birth of daughter, Pamela

1904 appointed First Sea Lord

1909 awarded Peer of the Realm, Baron Fisher of Kilverstone in the County of Norfolk

1910 retires from the British Navy as a national hero

1914 returns to First Sea Lord position by order of Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty

1915 resigns in May in protest at the handling of the Gallipoli campaign

1920 dies in London, Navy Funeral at Westminster Abbey, buried at his Norfolk home, Kilverstone Hall.