Antony Fisher participated in the formation of various neoliberal organisations during the second half of the 20th century, including the Institute of Economic Affairs and Atlas Network.
16 Facts About Antony Fisher
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Antony Fisher was born on 28 June 1915 into a wealthy mining family.
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Antony Fisher was two years old when his father was killed by a sniper in Gaza during World War I Fisher was educated at Eton College.
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Antony Fisher graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, with a degree in engineering.
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Shortly after that posting, in April 1940, their cousin Michael Antony Fisher was killed in the Battle of Flanders.
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On 15 August 1940, Antony Fisher saw his brother Basil plummet to his death after Basil's Hurricane was shot down and his parachute caught fire.
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The experience both traumatised Antony Fisher and, according to a biography, galvanised him into a belief that he must act to make the world a freer and more prosperous place where nation states would not go to war.
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Antony Fisher sought out Hayek at the London School of Economics and talked about his plans to go into politics; however, Hayek, convinced him that think tanks were the best medium for effecting political change.
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In 1952, Antony Fisher took a study trip to the United States, where he visited the new Foundation for Economic Education.
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Antony Fisher was impressed and returned to start England's first battery cage chicken farm, Buxted Chickens, which eventually made him a millionaire.
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In 1971, Antony Fisher founded the International Institute for Economic Research, later renamed the International Policy Network, which went on to spawn both Atlas Network in 1981 and the International Policy Network in 2001.
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Antony Fisher let the young director of the Fraser Institute, Michael Walker, get on with the intellectual output of the Institute while he himself concentrated on the fund-raising side.
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Cockett writes that Antony Fisher moved to San Francisco "with his second wife Dorian, who he had met through the Mont Pelerin Society, and founded the Pacific Research Institute in 1979", and that Antony Fisher and Milton Friedman lived in the same apartment block in San Francisco during the 1980s.
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Antony Fisher was a co-founder of the Fraser Institute, the Manhattan Institute, the Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, the National Center for Policy Analysis, the Centre for Independent Studies, and the Adam Smith Institute.
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Antony Fisher had four children with his first wife, including Linda Whetstone, who was involved with many of Fisher's think tanks.
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Antony Fisher died on 8 July 1988 in San Francisco, California.