Like Father, Like Son: The fateful travails in England and Australia of Richard Harding Hethorn and Richard Harding Watt

Rod Fisher was born in Melbourne where he attended university. After graduating he taught history in secondary schools in Victoria before relocating to Canada where he undertook his masters at the University of Saskatchewan. His thesis on the Elizabethan theologian William Perkins was followed up by his doctoral dissertation at Cambridge 'The Inns of Court and the Reformation 1530-1580'. He commenced teaching Tudor and Stuart history at the University of Queensland in 1974, but was drawn to, and subsequently focussed on local, community and applied history. In 1991 he established the UQ Applied History Centre where he taught and promoted its study until 2001. Over his career he wrote and edited a veritable library of books and journal articles, organised numerous historical/heritage tours and seminars, and jointly founded two important Brisbane based historical organisations. In 1981 he established the Brisbane History Group, and in 1991 the Brisbane Historians Institute. In his retirement he devoted much of his time to research and writing. This continued after he moved to Brazil in 2011. Rod passed away there in 2017 leaving two unpublished manuscripts. This book is the first of those to be published.

Also by Rod Fisher:

Diggles Down Under: Brisbane via Sydney from Merseyside (2003)

Boosting Brisbane: Imprinting the colonial capital of Queensland (2009)

The Best of Colonial Brisbane (2012)

Bygone Brisbane: Its history, your heritage (2015)

Queenslanders: Their historic timbered homes (2016)