"There was always something foreign to the Navy about Fisher. He was never judged to be one of the 'band of brothers' which the Nelson tradition had prescribed. Harsh, capricious, vindictive, gnawed by hatreds arising often from spite, working secretly or violently as occasion might suggest by methods which the typical English gentleman and public-school boy are taught to dislike and avoid, Fisher was always regarded as the 'dark angel' of the Naval service."
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Sir Winston Churchill. Lord Fisher and his Biographer, Great Contempories (1947), John Gardner (Liverpool), 3rd Ed. p. 265.
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