page_title: Philip Fysh
section_title: Later life
hierarchical_section_title: Philip Fysh / Later life
caption_attribution_description: English: Retired Australian politician Philip Fysh at home shortly after his 80th birthday
context_page_description: Sir Philip Oakley Fysh KCMG was an Australian politician. He arrived in Tasmania in 1859 and became a leading merchant in Hobart. He served two terms as premier of Tasmania and became a leader of the colony's federation movement. He subsequently won election to the new federal House of Representatives and was invited to represent Tasmania in the first federal ministry, serving as minister without portfolio and Postmaster-General.
context_section_description: Fysh was created a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in January 1896. He died in December 1919, aged 84. He was survived by five sons and four daughters. Fysh's wife, Esther Kentish Willis, was the daughter of William, a straw-hat manufacturer of Luton, Bedfordshire, who was also father of the judge and M.P. William Willis.
caption: Fysh in 1915
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