H. A. L. Fisher

Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher (1865–1940) was an English historian, educator, and Liberal politician who served as President of the Board of Education (1916–1922), instrumental in the Education Act 1918 raising the school leaving age to 14, and authored notable works including the three-volume History of Europe (1935) and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize-winning biography James Bryce (1927). He was awarded the Order of Merit in 1937 and held academic positions such as Warden of New College, Oxford.