Clive Fiske Harrison (born 23 November 1939) is an English stockbroker. He is the chairman of Fiske plc, an independent stockbroking firm based in London.

Early life

According to ''

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'', Fiske Harrison was educated at

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and Trinity Hall,

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, and worked at Panmure Gordon, as a stockbroker, alongside

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David Cameron's father Ian Cameron, before joining Fiske & Co in the early 1970s.

Fiske & Co

In 1975, Fiske & Co merged with stockbrokers Bragg, Stockdale, Hall & Co, founded in 1819, and headed by

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. (Lord Ailebsury became a partner at Fiske & Co, and later joined the board when it became a limited company.) Fiske has grown to almost a billion pounds under investment, became a publicly listed company in 2000, Fiske plc, and was named the top British stockbroker by the financial news service

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the following year. Its chairman has long taken a sceptical view of the market, leading the City Editor of ''

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'' to comment in January 2009: "One person whose views I respect is Clive Fiske Harrison who runs Fiske & Co, the stockbroker. He has spent no less than 47 years in the stock market. In a letter to clients and friends just before Christmas he warned that the market's reaction to the present problems was still relatively modest in the context of past crises and almost certainly had further to go." Three years later the City Editor of the ''

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'' congratulated him on his half century, pointing out that he had joined Panmure Gordon at the same time as the famously long serving David Mayhew who became chairman of Cazenove & Co, later

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, but even he had retired the year before.

Family

According to '' Burke's'', he is a relation of Major

Fiske Goodeve Fiske-Harrison Fiske Goodeve Fiske-Harrison (2 September 1793 – 1872) of Copford Hall, Lord of the Manor of Copford was High Sheriff of Essex. He was born Fyske Goodeve Harrison on 2 September 1793 at Copford Hall, Essex, to John Haynes Harrison. John Hayne ...

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, and himself resides in the nearby village of Layer de la Haye and also in

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. (He is also a distant cousin of Field Marshall Earl Kitchener and, by marriage, Field Marshal Viscount Gough.) He married and had three sons. His eldest son Byron is a polo player and was a cavalry officer in the

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, his middle son Jules was, according to ''

'', a "famously skilled and fearless skier" who died in a skiing accident in Zermatt, Switzerland in 1988 and his youngest son

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is an author and former amateur

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who has also participated in the annual 'running of the bulls' in

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alongside his father.'San Fermín So Far – 2014'
''The Pamplona Post''. 12 July 2014

References

External links

Fiske Plc Website

Fiske Harrison Family website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Harrison, Clive Fiske 1939 births Living people Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge English investment bankers English investors English money managers English stockbrokers People educated at Felsted School