Samuel Fisher (writer)
Samuel Fisher may refer to: * Samuel Fisher (Quaker) (1605–1665), English Quaker controversialist * Samuel Fisher (died 1681) (c. 1605–1681), English ejected minister * Samuel Fisher (clergyman) (1777–1857), American clergyman and educator * Samuel Rhoads Fisher (1794–1839), secretary of the Navy of the Republic of Texas * Samuel Rowland Fisher (1745–1834), Philadelphia merchant in Revolutionary times * Samuel Fisher, Baron Fisher of Camden (1905–1979), British businessman and Jewish leader * Samuel H. Fisher (1867–1957), American attorney and print historian See also * Samuel von Fischer (1859–1934), Hungarian-born German publisher * Sam Fisher (other) Sam Fisher may refer to: * Sam Fisher (Australian footballer) (born 1982), former Australian rules footballer * Sam Fisher (Scottish footballer) (born 2001), Scottish association footballer * Sam Fisher (''Splinter Cell''), protagonist of Ubisoft ...

Samuel Fisher (Quaker)
Samuel Fisher may refer to: * Samuel Fisher (Quaker) (1605–1665), English Quaker controversialist * Samuel Fisher (died 1681) (c. 1605–1681), English ejected minister * Samuel Fisher (clergyman) (1777–1857), American clergyman and educator * Samuel Rhoads Fisher (1794–1839), secretary of the Navy of the Republic of Texas * Samuel Rowland Fisher (1745–1834), Philadelphia merchant in Revolutionary times * Samuel Fisher, Baron Fisher of Camden (1905–1979), British businessman and Jewish leader * Samuel H. Fisher (1867–1957), American attorney and print historian See also * Samuel von Fischer (1859–1934), Hungarian-born German publisher * Sam Fisher (other) Sam Fisher may refer to: * Sam Fisher (Australian footballer) (born 1982), former Australian rules footballer * Sam Fisher (Scottish footballer) (born 2001), Scottish association footballer * Sam Fisher (''Splinter Cell''), protagonist of Ubisoft ...

Samuel Fisher (died 1681)
Samuel Fisher (c.1605–buried 5 September 1681) was an English Puritan clergyman and writer, who was committed to a Presbyterian polity. After serving as a rural rector in Shropshire during the period of Charles I's absolute monarchy, he worked in London and Shrewsbury during the English Civil War and under the Commonwealth and in Cheshire during the Protectorate. After the Great Ejection of 1662 he settled in Birmingham, where he worked as a nonconformist preacher. The precise course of his career is a matter of some controversy. Identity This article concerns a Presbyterian minister who served at Shrewsbury approximately between 1645 and 1650 and afterwards at Thornton-le-Moors in Cheshire, retiring to Birmingham after his ejection. There were several Puritan clergy named Samuel Fisher and their lives seem to have become confused in some of the sources. The namesake with whom he is most often confused was a contemporary Puritan minister of Lydd who became a Quaker. An artic ...
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Samuel Fisher (clergyman)
Samuel Fisher (June 30, 1777 – 1856) was an American clergyman and educator. His father, serving in the Continental Army at Morristown, New Jersey, died of disease just before his birth. His mother was living at the time with her brother-in-law, Dr. Samuel Ware, in Sunderland, Massachusetts. He lived for a few years with his mother in Dedham, Massachusetts, and in 1782 went to Conway, to live with his uncle, Dr. Ware, who had adopted him, and where he remained till he went to college. He studied at Williams College, graduating in 1799. He taught school in Conway and then became head of Deerfield Academy in 1800. He was next a tutor at Williams College from 1801 to 1803, meanwhile studying divinity. He met his future wife Alice Cogswell in 1802 and they married in 1805. Her cousin of the same name was the inspiration for the founding of the first school for the deaf in the United States. Fisher and his wife had six children. She died in 1850. He received a license t ...
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Samuel Rhoads Fisher
Samuel Rhoads Fisher was the secretary of the Navy of the Republic of Texas. He was born in Pennsylvania on December 31, 1794 and settled in Texas in 1830 with his wife and four children in the Matagorda area. He represented Matagorda Municipality in the Convention of 1836 at Washington-on-the-Brazos where he signed the Texas Declaration of Independence. President Sam Houston nominated Fisher as Secretary of the Texas Navy and the appointment was confirmed by the Senate on October 28, 1836. A letter to presidential candidate Mirabeau B. Lamar in August 1838 from George Wheelwright George may refer to: People * George (given name) * George (surname) * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Washington, First President of the United States * George W. Bush, 43rd Presid ... urged reconsideration of Fisher for Secretary for the good of the navy and defense of the Republic and Houston suspended Fisher from office in October 183 ...
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Samuel Rowland Fisher
Samuel Rowland Fisher (November 6, 1745 – May 6, 1834) was a prominent Philadelphia merchant involved in transatlantic trade. He owned a large shipping line that ran between London and Philadelphia, but was exiled and imprisoned during the Revolutionary War because of his Quaker beliefs. Early years Fisher was born in Lewes, Delaware, into a Quaker family with historic roots, growing up in Philadelphia. His father, Joshua Fisher, was the grandson of John Fisher who came to America aboard the ''Welcome'' with William Penn. His mother, Sarah Rowland, was the granddaughter of Mary Harworth, an eloquent Friends minister who had also arrived on the ''Welcome''. Fisher's father Joshua moved the family to Philadelphia in 1746 and established a home and large mercantile business at 110 S Front St., soon after starting the first packet line of ships to sail regularly between Philadelphia and London. Fisher's father also purchased a country estate north of the city overlooking the Schuy ...
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Samuel Fisher, Baron Fisher Of Camden
Samuel Fisher, Baron Fisher of Camden (20 January 1905 – 12 October 1979) was a British businessman, local politician and leading member of the Jewish community. Fisher was born in Stepney in the East End of London as Samuel Fishtenberg, the son of Eastern European immigrants. He left school to start work at the age of 15, eventually entering the diamond business as a broker in the Hatton Garden area. He rose to become Secretary and Vice-President of the London Diamond Bourse. In 1945 he entered local politics as a Labour Party member of Stoke Newington Borough Council, and served as Mayor of Stoke Newington in 1953–54. He became a JP for Inner London in 1951. When Camden London Borough Council was created as a shadow authority in 1964 he was its Chairman, and was chosen as the first Mayor of Camden in 1965–1966. He was the last chairman of the Metropolitan Water Board in 1973–1974. Fisher was prominent in lay organisations representing Jewry: he was president of the B ...
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Samuel H
Samuel ''Šəmūʾēl'', Tiberian: ''Šămūʾēl''; ar, شموئيل or صموئيل '; el, Σαμουήλ ''Samouḗl''; la, Samūēl is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transition from the biblical judges to the United Kingdom of Israel under Saul, and again in the monarchy's transition from Saul to David. He is venerated as a prophet in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In addition to his role in the Hebrew scriptures, Samuel is mentioned in Jewish rabbinical literature, in the Christian New Testament, and in the second chapter of the Quran (although Islamic texts do not mention him by name). He is also treated in the fifth through seventh books of '' Antiquities of the Jews'', written by the Jewish scholar Josephus in the first century. He is first called "the Seer" in 1 Samuel 9:9. Biblical account Family Samuel's mother was Hannah and his father was Elkanah. Elkanah lived at Ramathaim in the district of Zuph. His genealo ...
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Samuel Von Fischer
Samuel Fischer, later Samuel von Fischer (24 December 1859 – 15 October 1934), was a Hungarian-born German publisher, the founder of S. Fischer Verlag. Fischer was born in Liptau-Sankt-Nikolaus/Liptószentmiklós (now Liptovský Mikuláš), ''Liptau/ Liptó megye'', northern Hungary. Biography He was trained as a bookseller in Vienna and moved to Berlin shortly afterwards. In Berlin, he joined the bookseller and publisher Hugo Steinitz. Fischer took on increasing responsibility for new publishing endeavours and managed to launch his own firm in 1886, the S. Fischer, Verlag. The Fischer publishing house first became known by introducing the works of Ibsen to German stages and by supporting the naturalist circle in Berlin. Samuel Fischer founded the theatre society Freie Bühne with Otto Brahm to avoid censorship. He died in Berlin, Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous c ...
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