John Fidler

John Fidler was born in Northumberland in 1936. He was educated at Carlisle Grammar School and at Keble College, Oxford, where he read History. He had an aircrew commission in the Royal Air Force during his National Service, training in Canada as a navigator. He taught history at Lancaster Royal Grammar School for thirty-five years, and published a history of the school in 2010. John has also published (for the Lancaster Maritime Museum) a booklet on the six ships, which since 1694 have borne the name HMS Lancaster, and a book for Pen & Sword, Lancaster in the Great War.