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RARE \"1st Baron Downham\" Hayes Fisher Signed Album Page:
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Up for sale a RARE! "1st Baron Downham" Hayes Fisher Hand Signed Album Page. 

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William

Hayes Fisher, 1st Baron Downham, PC, KStJ (1853

– 2 July 1920) was a British Conservative Party politician.

He held office as President of

the Local Government Board and Minister of

Information in David Lloyd George's First World War coalition

government. Born at Downham, (known now as

'Little Downham') in the Isle of Ely, Fisher was the son of Reverend Frederick

Fisher, rector of that parish, and Mary, daughter of William Hayes. He was

educated at Haileybury and University College, Oxford,

and was called to the Bar, Inner Temple, in 1879. Fisher was elected to the House of Commons for Fulham in

1885, a seat he held until 1906. He was private secretary Sir Michael

Hicks Beach between 1886 and 1887 and to Arthur Balfour between 1887 and 1892 (who both served

as Chief Secretary for

Ireland at the time). In 1896 he was appointed a Junior Lord of the Treasury (government

whip) in Salisbury, a post he held until August 1902, and then

served under Arthur Balfour as Financial Secretary

to the Treasury from 11 August 1902 to April 1903, when he

resigned as a result of his connection with a financial syndicate. He lost his

Fulham seat at the 1906 general

election but successfully reclaimed it at the January 1910 general election. The following year he was sworn of the Privy

Council.

Fisher returned to the government as Parliamentary Secretary to the Local Government Board in

May 1915 in the newly formed coalition government led by H. H. Asquith. He retained this post also when David Lloyd George became

Prime Minister in December 1916, but in June 1917 he was promoted to President of

the Local Government Board with a seat in the cabinet. In

November 1918 he was made Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister of Information, and a few days later he was raised to the

peerage as Baron Downham, of Fulham in the County of London on 16 November. However, he

stepped down from the government already in January 1919. Apart from his career

in national politics, Fisher was an Alderman of the London County Council between

1907 and 1913 and its Chairman in 1919. 

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