JOHN FISHER, 1ST BARON FISHER
(John Arbuthnot Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher | Lord Fisher)
In one of Churchill’s greatest wartime blunders, he thought up a plan to attack Turkey in WWI despite the fact that almost all the professional naval and army officers thought it too dangerous and risky. Fisher, the Chief Naval Officer, tried to talk Churchill out of it but could not. Fisher turned out to have been right. The result was the tragic fiasco of Gallipoli. When the attack failed with such heavy losses, Fisher resigned and Churchill was forced out of office soon afterward.
John Arbuthnot Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, GCB, OM, GCVO, commonly known as Jacky or Jackie Fisher, was a British Admiral of the Fleet known for his efforts at naval reform. He had a huge influence on the Royal Navy in a career spanning more than 60 years, starting in a navy of wooden sailing ships armed with muzzle-loading cannon and ending in one of steel-hulled battlecruisers, submarines and the first aircraft carriers.
