Fisher, Sir James Hurtle (1790–1875)
This article was published in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 1, (MUP), 1966
Sir James Hurtle Fisher (1790-1875), lawyer and commissioner, was born at Sunbury, Middlesex, England, the eldest son of James Fisher, of Green Street, London, architect, and Henrietta Harriet, second daughter of Henry Knapp, rector of Stoke Albury, Northamptonshire. He was articled to the London solicitors, Brown & Gotobed, and admitted to practice in July 1811. On 5 October 1813 he married Elizabeth Johnson. In 1816 he commenced practice as a solicitor in London.
Drawn into the colonizing movement in 1835, Fisher became a member of the South Australian Building Committee in September, and in November was selected as resident commissioner, one of the most important offices under the South Australian Act (4…
