If any subordinate opposes me, I will make his wife a widow, his children fatherless and his home a dunghill. - John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher

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If any subordinate opposes me, I will make his wife a widow, his children fatherless and his home a dunghill.

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About John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher

Admiral of the Fleet John Arbuthnot "Jacky" (or "Jackie") Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, GCB, OM, GCVO (25 January 1841 – 10 July 1920) was a British admiral 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. The argumentative, energetic, reform-minded Fisher is often considered the second most important figure in British naval history, after Lord Nelson.

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Alternative Names: John Arbuthnot Fisher • John Arbuthnot Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher of Kilverstone • John Arbuthnot Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher • Sir John Fisher • John Arbuthnot Fisher, Baron Fisher • Lord Fisher • Lord Sir John Fisher • Captain Fisher • Captain Fischer
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