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Fisher was born in London , the eldest son of Herbert William Fisher ( 1826 - 1903 ), author of ''Considerations on the Origin of the American War'' and his wife Mary Louisa Jackson ( 1841 - 1916 ). His sister Adeline Maria Fisher was the first wife of the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams , another sister Florence Henrietta Fisher married both Frederic William Maitland and Francis Darwin . Fisher was first cousin to Virginia Woolf and her sister Vanessa Bell . He was educated at Winchester and New College , Oxford . He was appointed Vice-Chancellor of the University Of Sheffield in 1912 . In 1899 he married the economist and historian Lettice Ilbert ( 1875 - 1956 ). Their only child was the British academic, Mary Bennett . In 1916 Fisher was elected as Member Of Parliament for Sheffield Hallam and joined the government of David Lloyd George as President Of The Board Of Education . In this post he was instrumental in the formulation of the 1918 Education Act , which made school attendance compulsory for children up to the age of 14. In 1918 he became MP for the Combined English Universities . Fisher Took The Chiltern Hundreds on 15 February 1926 , retiring from politics to take up the post of warden of New College, Oxford , which he held until his death. There he published a three volume ''History of Europe'' (ISBN 0-00-636506-X) in 1935 . He received the Order Of Merit in 1937 . SEE ALSO
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