Personal Life
Fisher married Ingrid Geech Hunt in 1971 and fathered two children, Rhydian Fisher, and the actress India Fisher, as well as taking over the upbringing of Hunt's two children by her previous marriage, the musician Crispin Hunt and the actress Francesca Hunt. The couple divorced in 1999. He is self-effacing and has compared himself to looking like Humpty Dumpty. He has lived in the Stoke-on-Trent district of Hartshill since first running for Parliament.
Fisher refused the offer of a peerage ahead of the 2001 General Election.
Fisher's 2004 book Britain's Best Museums and Galleries listed what were, in his opinion, the 350 best museums in the country.
In October 2009, it was revealed that Fisher is paid £67,000 a year as an adviser to a museum in the Middle East. The Qatar Museums Authority paid Fisher this sum for three board meetings a year.It is unknown if he is still part of the Qatar Museums Authority's board of trustees, but the authority's website does not mention his name in the list of members.
"Tony Blair manages to give the impression that he doesn't like trade unions, local authorities or the Labour party - people have sensed this and they don't like it"
Fisher after the 2005 electionRead more about this topic: Mark Fisher (politician)
Famous quotes containing the words personal and/or life:
“In contrast with envy, which usually occurs between two people and is focused upon another person’s qualities or possessions, jealousy occurs when a third person becomes a threat to a dyad. Jealousy involves the loss or the impending loss of a relationship that one wants to hold onto, a relationship that is vital to personal fulfillment and claimed as one’s own.”
—Carol S. Becker (b. 1942)
“A woman’s whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole soul on the traffic of affection; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless—for it is a bankruptcy of the heart.”
—Washington Irving (1783–1859)