Speech at the Lord Mayor’s Banquet, assuring his countrymen that they could sleep quietly in their beds, and not be disturbed by invasion bogeys.
June, 1908.
Visited Reval with King Edward and Queen Alexandra on their visit to the Tsar of Russia. Awarded G.C.V.O. on the conclusion of this cruise.
June 17, 1908.
Created honorary LL.D. of Cambridge University.
June, 1909.
Entertained delegates to Imperial Press Conference at a review of the Fleet at Spithead, and a display of submarines, etc.
December 7, 1909.
Raised to the peerage as Baron Fisher of Kilverstone, in the County of Norfolk, after the manor bequeathed to his only son by the late Mr. Josiah Vavasseur, C.B.