Leonard Fisher
The Rt Rev Leonard Noel Fisher, DD was an eminent Anglican Bishop in the second quarter of the twentieth century.
He was educated at Oakham School and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and ordained in 1905. His first post was as a Curate at St Paul’s, Hull after which he was Sub-Warden of St Paul’s Theological College, Grahamstown. Later he was a temporary World War I Chaplain and then held incumbencies at St Nicholas, Hull and St Matthew Grangetown. In 1921 he was elevated to the Episcopate as Bishop of Lebombo. Translated to Natal in 1928, he served the Diocese until 1951.
His brother, Geoffrey,was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1945 until 1961. In 1949,Leonard almost became the second archbishop in the family when he was narrowly defeated in the election for Archbishop of Cape Town by Geoffrey Clayton
