The Reverend George Fisher was born in Sunbury, Middlesex in July 1794 and took employment as a clerk with the Westminster Fire Insurance Company (Westminster Fire Office) in 1808. Entering St. Catherine's College, Cambridge in 1817, he gained a B.A. in 1821 and a M.A. in 1825. He then held the posts of Astronomer and Acting Chaplain aboard the Dorothea in the 1818 Arctic Expedition and Astronomer and Chaplain aboard the Fury in Parry's 1821-23 Expedition to discover the North West Passage. Returning safely to terra firma, Fisher next became the Curate of the Parish of Stansted, Essex during the years 1825-27 and Curate of the Parish of Ampthill, Bedfordshire in 1827. He was appointed Fellow of the Royal Society in 1825 and Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1827 and between 1827-32 held the position of Chaplain to H.M. Ships Spartiate and Asia before being placed on Half-Pay. From 1834 until his retirement in 1863 he held the posts of Principal and Chaplain of Greenwich Hospital School. Fisher, whose scientific interests embraced studies into pendulums, chronometers, velocity of sound, liquifaction of gases and refraction, died at Rugby in 1873, aged 78 years.